commuter platform
a harmonica blowing
the freight train blues
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Lorin Ford
Growing up first in the Seaford Beach/Kananook Creek area and then in Cann River, Croajingolong country, East Gippsland, formed Lorin?s sense of belonging to the natural world. Lorin began writing haiku in 2004. She served on the judging panel for the Haiku Dreaming Awards (2009), on the The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Books Awards Panel (2010, 2011 and 2012) and was co-judge with Lee Gurga for the H.S.A.?s 2018 Henderson Haiku Awards. Lorin was haiku editor for the first nine (quarterly) issues of Notes From the Gean (2009 ? 2011) and subsequently publisher of A Hundred Gourds (2011 ? 2016) where she served as haiku editor, features editor, managing editor and in other editorial roles. In 2014 she founded the 'Red Kelpie Haiku Group' (Melbourne, Australia), convening four meetings each year until the group broke up subsequent to its twentieth meeting in June 2019. Over the years, Lorin's haiku have received awards and been included in excellent anthologies. Books Published: 'a wattle seedpod' (Post Pressed, Teneriffe, Qld, Australia, 2008); e-chapbooks: 'what light there is' (3Lights Gallery, 2009) and 'A Few Quick Brushstrokes', a winner of the Snapshot Press e-chapbook competition, 2011. All three publications are available online, free of charge. View all posts by Lorin Ford
Morning –
The city will wake from a sleep
Tram roar
counting
days to Christmas
the radio station
Hi Lorin – I just wanted to say how much I enjoy this haiku. I keep coming back to it as it can be read on so many different levels. Excellent stuff.
Enjoyed the juxtaposition of this with the Tokyo train poem posted the next day.
Thanks for noticing that, Zirconium! I try to arrange the poems so there are interesting juxtapositions and segues like that.
commuter
windows
following
me
down
the
aisle
full
moon