Photo Haiku Kukai

Photo-haiku

In 1999 Mitty (Mitsugu) Abe developed the first interactive website for photographers and haiku poets to do something new and collaborate with their arts: "Overcoming Time and Distance". Along with others around the world, WHC members have enjoyed Mitty's sites by writing haiku for a wide variety of photographs of nature, people and places. Recently Mitty created Beacons, a web site in which people submit photos and haiku about the seasons related to the places where they live. Already this site enjoys submissions from the U.S., Canada, UK, Japan and Italy.

Calla Lily Image

by Carol Raisfeld

don't you hear

the music

of the trumpeteer?

peigi ann sway

how dark

the shade of sun in the light

of a calla lily

hortensia anderson

golden sword

in white linen shroud

calla lily

deborah russell

wrapped in white

your core of pollen

waits for the bees

carlos fleitas

carrier of light

calla lily in bloom

the whole day

marjorie buettner

early morning -

a calla lily

open for business

carol raisfeld

Monastery

by Ena Linares

evensong-

the faint shuffling

of sandalled feet

Sue Mill

at the end of

a monk's silent walk:

light

Sheila Windsor

evening prayer

in a monastery

a chant echoes

Robert Leechford

hallowed eve

a silence broken

only by footsteps

Kathi Rudawsky

let's step inside

this cool colonnade,

little sparrow

Michael McClintock

around the arches

echoes

of meditations

ena

Morning Silhouette

by soji (Gary Barnes)

morning silhouette

a shadow becomes

the tree

Darrell Byrd

sunrise-

the first lark's

hesitant notes

Sue Mill

releasing the tree

from its shadow

morning light

Linda Robeck

clouds part

for a moment in time

morning silhouette

Carol Raisfeld

dim morning

my every thought shadowed

by your absence

naia

storm warning

a bruised sky

threatens revenge

soji (Gary Barnes)

Morning Dew

by Carol Raisfeld

first morning alone

teardrops

even the roses

Jeanne Marie Booth

newspaper delivery

the dew on the roses

quivers

Carmen Sterba

in the dew drop

an unseen universe-

worlds collide

Sue Mill

her lips

sweet as the dew

on the morning rose

Darrell Byrd

summer rose -

the dew soaking

in coral pink

Robert Leechford

a dewy rose

this morning

the scent of summer

Carol Raisfeld

New Leaves

by Ray Rasmussen

giving away

the youngest of my daughters -

new spring leaves

Linda Robeck

leaves hold

small ballet shoes

dance yet to come

Carol Sircoulomb

spring leaves

the mellow tinkle

of windchimes

Sue Mill

sycamore seeds

my son slides down

the banister

Paul Conneally

winged seeds -

flight for

life

Rita Summers

spring leaves--

new growth covers

old burdens

Ray Rasmussen

Sh, Sh, Sh

by Carol Raisfeld

nursing home

the old woman naps with

a worn baby doll

Kathi Rudawsky

sleeping child

for you I will

stop the world

Sheila Windsor

child's play,

so little time

to practice

Jeanne Marie Booth

already

in her little chair

a mother

Joyce Maxner

the new baby

smells like sunshine

we all agree

Michael McClintock

a littel girl says

"sh-sh-sh-"

the babydoll sleeps

Carol Raisfeld