Behind the tree line haiku anthology
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This document is a collection of haiku poems from the Wild Plum haiku journal and haiku contest from 2015. It contains over 60 haiku poems written by various authors on nature themes. It also includes biographical information about the editors and lists the authors and artists who contributed haiku and haiga (haiku with artwork) to the collection.
Behind the tree line haiku anthology
- 2. Cover art by Janina Kołodziejczyk All works herein are the property of the authors. No work may be republished or used in any way without their explicit permission.
- 3. Behind the Tree Line Selected haiku from the Wild Plum - a haiku journal and the Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2015 edited by Gabriel Sawicki
- 5. all the journeys I shouldn’t have done – sunken boat Kanavu Nila 3
- 6. your line in the sand waves push in the tide pulls out Deborah P Kolodji 4
- 7. west wind a mocking-bird fashions it into lyrics Ernest J Berry 5
- 8. sunset– the stone rests at bottom Pravat Kumar Padhy 6
- 9. cloudy hilltop — the peacock unrobes its kimono Kumarendra Mallick 7
- 10. autumn wildflowers last chance at becoming words Patrick Doerksen 8
- 11. Anne Curran
- 12. summer storm the brimming moon in the cattle trough Mark Miller 10
- 13. riverside café reading the flood levels Duncan Richardson 11
- 15. an open door evening shadows reach out to frogsong Vanessa Proctor 13
- 16. peppermint gum— beneath a pink sky the fallen sun Anna Cates 14
- 17. swimming through the moon… broken music Jo Balistreri 15
- 19. Cherry blossoms light up her hair… scent of dawn Keith A. Simmonds 17
- 20. the faucet dripping … my loneliness comes inside her Chen-ou Liu 18
- 21. between our indefinite silence the thundershowers Archana Kapoor Nagpal 19
- 22. coming home through cracked bridges of my roots Barbara A. Taylor 20
- 23. Debbie Strange
- 24. Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (haiku) & Konrad Banaszkiewicz (artwork)
- 25. New Year’s eve… the things that will remain the same Shloka Shankar 23
- 26. white-haired lovers reflecting on the blossom Helen Buckingham 24
- 27. pink ribbon falling one by one magnolia flowers Janina Ko odziejczykł 25
- 28. autumn night – even the moon is not with me Maria Tirenescu 26
- 29. Tatjana Debeljacki (haiku) & Masha Djuricic (artwork)
- 30. pulling me along a string of geese Alexis Rotella 28
- 31. car floodlights sop up the cold mist Tyler Pruett 29
- 32. David J Kelly
- 33. his anger rose petals drop over the fence Jade Pisani 31
- 34. before the storm– a wind changes its shades Magdalena Banaszkiewicz 32
- 35. long after the song of the first bird is over – swaying cherry twig Eduard Tara 33
- 36. desert stones slowly their shadows change sides Simon Hanson 34
- 37. Billy Antonio
- 38. Lavana Kray
- 39. December. . . just a grassblade to stare at Kanchan Chatterjee 37
- 40. night crows the haystacks lose their moonlight Alan Summers 38
- 41. bamboo cutters washing in green water – a scent of tuberose Sandra Simpson 39
- 42. tattered quilt in the winter chill an old warmth Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy 40
- 43. endless night— mother scrapes darkness off the kettle Carl Seguiban 41
- 44. rusty leaves my garden falling down Quendryth Young 42
- 45. early autumn tomatoes on the plant still blushing Myron Lysenko 43
- 46. clouds mountain wind folds my fingertips Kanavu Nila 44
- 47. BELOVED SOI the stone carver’s sharpened shadow Mark E. Brager 45
- 48. embracing the boundless – an empty boat closer to the moon Steliana Cristina Voicu 46
- 49. Olivier Schopfer
- 50. Kanavu Nila (haiku) & Ranjana Pai (artwork)
- 51. shaping water and my reverie river stones Simon Hanson 49
- 52. silent backyard – breathing the same moon a dog and I Paresh Tiwari 50
- 53. Maria Tomczak
- 54. Mumbai commute each train window colored with people Sonam Chhoki 52
- 55. Bright Angel Trail tethered mules lean together into the mountain Bruce H. Feingold 53
- 56. Mary Kendall
- 57. outgoing tide footprints that no longer fit Julie Warther 55
- 58. lingering memory she reaches for another onion Maria Tomczak 56
- 59. my kitchen garden overrun with orange pumpkins the weight of summer Marietta McGregor 57
- 60. aquarelle – a dripping tear makes the otherness Lavana Kray 58
- 61. office tower waiting to be torn down winter sun Yukiko Yamada 59
- 63. last light my shadow too gone Shloka Shankar 61
- 64. Index of Poets: Balistreri, Jo - p. 15 Banaszkiewicz, Magdalena - p. 32 Berry, Ernest J - p. 5 Brager, Mark E. - p. 45 Buckingham, Helen - p. 24 Cates, Anna - p. 14 Chatterjee, Kanchan - p. 37 Chhoki, Sonam - p. 52 Doerksen, Patrick - p. 8 Feingold, Bruce H. - p. 53 Hanson, Simon - p. 34, 49 Kolodji, Deborah P - p. 4 Ko odziejczyk, Janina - p. 25ł Kray, Lavana - p. 58
- 65. Krishnamurthy, Shrikaanth - p. 40 Liu, Chen-ou - p. 18 Lysenko, Myron - p. 43 Mallick, Kumarendra - p. 7 McGregor, Marietta - p. 57 Miller, Mark - p. 10 Nagpal, Archana Kapoor - p. 19 Nila, Kanavu - p. 3, 44 Padhy, Pravat Kumar - p. 6 Pisani, Jade - p. 31 Proctor, Vanessa - p. 13 Pruett, Tyler - p. 29 Richardson, Duncan - p. 11 Rotella, Alexis - p. 28
- 66. Seguiban, Carl - p. 41 Shankar, Shloka - p. 23, 61 Simmonds, Keith A. - p. 17 Simpson, Sandra - p. 39 Summers, Alan - p. 38 Tara, Eduard - p. 33 Taylor, Barbara A. - p. 20 Tirenescu, Maria - p. 26 Tiwari, Paresh - p. 50 Tomczak, Maria - p. 56 Voicu, Steliana Cristina - p. 46 Warther, Julie - p. 55 Yamada, Yukiko - p. 59 Young, Quendryth - p. 42
- 67. Index of Haiga Authors: Antonio, Billy - p. 35 (previously published: 127th WHA Haiga Contest (02/2015)) Banaszkiewicz, Konrad - p. 22 Banaszkiewicz, Magdalena - p. 22 Curran, Anne - p. 9 (previously published: Undertow Tanka Review, Issue 5) Debeljacki, Tatiana - p. 27 Djuricic Masha - p. 27 Kelly, David J - p. 30 Kendall, Mary - p. 54 Ko odziejczyk, Janina - cover art, p. 60ł Kray, Lavana - p. 36 Nila, Kanavu - p. 48 (previously published: A Hundred Gourds, 2014) Pai, Ranjana -p. 48 (previously published: A Hundred Gourds, 2014) Shopfer, Olivier - p. 47 (previously published: Chrysanthemum 17, April 2015)
- 68. Strange, Debbie - p. 21 Taylor, Barbara A. - p. 12 (haiku previously published : Tiny Words, April 2014 ) Tomczak, Maria - p. 51 (previously published: Daily Haiga, July 2015) Voicu, Steliana Cristina - p. 16
- 70. 2015