midnight jetty
the sound of water
slapping water

 

 

(Originally published in A Hundred Gourds 1:3 ? June 2012)

Published by

Kala Ramesh

Kala Ramesh co-edited the award winning Naad Anunaad: an Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Vishwakarma Publication 2016) and co-authored an e-book with Marlene Mountain one-line twos (Bones 2016). She is the author of two books: haiku (Katha Books 2010, reprint 2017) and beyond the horizon beyond (Vishwakarma Publication 2017) and a tanka e-chapbook unseen arc (Snapshot Press 2017). Kala?s initiatives culminated in founding IN haiku in 2013. She teaches haiku and allied genres at Symbiosis International University Pune. To bring haiku into everyday spaces, Kala initiated HaikuWALL, haikuTRAIL, haikuTALK, haikuWORKSHOP, haikuYOUTH, haikuUTSAV, haikuDHYANA and haikuSAATSANGATH, the last being a stage performance with dancers and actors.

15 thoughts on “”

  1. .

    I haven't been around jettys at midnight only a dock/harbour on New Year's Eve. :-)

    Pero’s Bridge –
    the dock’s ice gathers
    new year resolutions

    Alan Summers
    Publications credits: City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures (Paralalia 2004)
    ISBN 10: 0954811704 ISBN 13: 9780954811709; 3Lights Gallery
    PROMENADE A 3LIGHTS Gallery Presentation Curator & Photographer LIAM WILKINSON 2008 3Lights Promenade (April – July 2008)

    I’ve only written a single jetty haiku, with a touch of humor:

    passing marshfields –
    through a dirty train window
    a jetty of yachts

    Alan Summers
    Blithe Spirit vol. 7 no. 4 (1997)

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    And a few harbour and dock ones…

    dockside dredger
    undulating reflections
    between night showers

    Alan Summers
    Presence 2 (1996)

    floating harbour
    a sunfall’s last glints over
    wind dimpled water

    Alan Summers
    City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures (Paralalia 2004)
    ISBN 10: 0954811704 ISBN 13: 9780954811709

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    1. dockside dredger
      undulating reflections
      between night showers

      Alan Summers

      I love this, Alan
      I'm happy mine prompted you to dig out yours <s>
      Thanks a ton

    1. Ha! Gisele,
      Thank you so much :))
      This is one of my favourites.
      I remember, I did work for a long time to get this right :)

  2. 'Slap' is exactly the verb that is needed to describe the sound of water hitting water at a jetty. Great sound and vision used to create atmosphere in this one, Kala.

    marion

    1. Marion,

      Thank you so much for your appreciation.
      All art heavily depends on this 'pat' on the back.
      _kala :))

  3. Thanks Sheila,

    Yes, I remember Susan Constable saying she conducted it.
    Happy you could relate to this so effortlessly
    _kala :))

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