she waves a thin blue scarf becoming sky
haiku & other small poems
she waves a thin blue scarf becoming sky
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
Gorgeous and transporting haiku! The reader can assume so many different cuts — each one satisfying and a bit mysterious.
Good one Lorin!
hauling in
his clothesline
three sheets to the wind
Dear Lorin, A lovely poem. Thank you.
Still love your style Lorin. Fabulous work!
Oh what a beautiful haiku!
Definitely one for my notebook of favorites. Superb!
So beautiful, Lorin – endlessly evocative – at once saddening and uplifting. I go along with Dawn in that it's one of my favourite ku of late, I just keep returning to it…..
Light and graceful. I especially enjoyed the experience of the self and the scarf
blending into "nature"
Beautiful, Lorin – so visual.
marion
Love the touch of nostalgia in this haiku, Lorin!
Beautiful, evocative, transforming.