Emerald13 POETRY

  A SPINNING THREAD   It was sudden. Three months ago, on a bright day filled with nature's first green, she stood hanging out the washing – a mundane activity, a mindless rhythm, peg by peg, four to a row. jocks and T- shirts on the back row, a flutter of sheets next to floral PJ's, tracing shadows across a modest orchid.  Empty basket on her hip, she turned, tripped, hit her head on the concrete path. puddled clouds a wing-torn moth slaps at shadows Dementia he was told. Not liking things awry, out of whack, he had no words – slowly, seasons spin on a fragile thread of fears, held fast in the dream catcher. Cups of tea growing cold.  'She died', he said quietly.  'Yesterday'. published 2026 Drifting Sands Issue 37  (Neena Singh)

and here it is ... the board that was chosen as a finalist out of 5,000 entries worldwide.  very proud.  this haiku is a nod to Basho's famous poem. i wish i could see it insitu - if you are in WashingtonDC maybe you can send me a photo of it in place. ?

an email arrived - thrilled to be a finalist.  i dont know which one of the haiku i sent in was chosen.  look forward to seeing - their website  currently shows 2025 finalists and updates mid march. Hello from the Golden Triangle neighborhood of Washington, DC.   On behalf of the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District in Washington, D.C., I’m writing to let you know that one of you Haiku was selected for display in our neighborhood, beginning in mid-March.   While the judges selected other haiku for this year’s winners, your haiku was chosen to be among the 200+ signs shared around our 172-block area downtown. The judges reviewed nearly 5,000 haiku submissions in this year’s competition. Submissions came from 90 different countries and from all 50 states in the U.S., as well as from the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.   Haiku signs will remain on display until May. We invite you to visit the Golden Triangle, view the haiku...

  I will post the link when Tanka Tones comes online.  meantime you can read them (and others) here on this site. dreams grow  and   october showers

 

  Eucalypt May 2022 (hardcopy) Pg43

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Echidna Tracks #15 Open Theme  - page  

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Catchment edition4   Australian Haiku Society   21 June 2025

MOONSET - June 2007 (hardcopy) spring/summer issue of the newspaper  

January 2007 Modern English Tanka    

 ~     I hesitate. Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes time to adjust. A spill of cracked spines, piled one on top of the other bulging floor-to-ceiling marked by the occasional cock-eyed, hand-written sign, a promise of some kind of order. shadows curtain the alcove— a beard coughs Sections run into each other;  Literature, Do-It-Yourself, History, Cooking  is separated from  Self Help  turning a corner You will find  Tasmania  along a wall down the hallway, past a sprawling jumble of random miscellany and comics. There is nothing here for me. I head for the street. Fantasy by the disappearing staircase I hesitate. ~~~ published Haibun Today Feb 2009 slight changes above compared to the one accepted below ~ I hesitate.   Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes t...

  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Catchment edition4  Australian Haiku Society   21 June 2025  a nod to Wiliam Carlos Williams " The Red Wheelbarrow "

  3lights gallery 2008