gray morning —
clouds cover the lake
in mother-of-pearl
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Betty Kaplan
Betty Kaplan, BKaplan297 at aol.com
Retired from the Fashion Industry. Used to arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started to write haiku five years ago. Published in Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast World Haiku Review and American Tanka.
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Hi, Betty read below a haiku from Albania:
the moon
girl-friends face
thousands kilometers far away…
Betty you genius. This was lying around under our noses all these years and you were the only one to see it! You have forever changed my definition of a billowy grey day.
empty afternoon-
crows grow distant
in a flat white sky
Hello Betty, Bret, and Group, 5-30-06
Thanks for sharing your free form haiku which is a different haiku form than the traditional 5,7,5. I like your shorter haiku with the kigo words. The art teacher and I won a FedCo Com. grant for our middle school so we are reading, speaking, writing, dancing and even rapping haiku to a beat. Can you suggest any Japanese music or movie titles? Thanks, Janis
Hi, Betty read below a haiku from Albania:
the moon
girl-friends face
thousands kilometers far away…
Looking at oneself
in the nacreous mirror…
stylish stork
mist lifting
cross the valley–
a sea of wavering blue
kujtim,
even though your english is rough, i always
enjoy your albanian / english haiku. many
albanians here are restaurant owners, and
cooks.
sylvain
Betty you genius. This was lying around under our noses all these years and you were the only one to see it! You have forever changed my definition of a billowy grey day.
empty afternoon-
crows grow distant
in a flat white sky
Hello Betty, Bret, and Group, 5-30-06
Thanks for sharing your free form haiku which is a different haiku form than the traditional 5,7,5. I like your shorter haiku with the kigo words. The art teacher and I won a FedCo Com. grant for our middle school so we are reading, speaking, writing, dancing and even rapping haiku to a beat. Can you suggest any Japanese music or movie titles? Thanks, Janis
spring rain puddles
beneath duck in flight
…falls two more drops