canyon stream
dried to a slit
of clear sky
(included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
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Jane Reichhold
Jane Reichhold (1937-2016). Jane Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima, Ohio, USA. In her lifetime she published over forty books of her haiku, renga, tanka, and translations. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she co-edited with her husband Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets from 1992 through 2013. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com , the website Jane started in 1995. From 2006 to 2016 she maintained an online forum ? the AHA Poetry forum. Jane was twice the winner of the Museum of Haiku Literature Award [Tokyo]. She was a three-time winner of a Haiku Society of America?s Merit Book Award: Tigers in Teacup, Silence, and A Dictionary of Haiku. She was the winner of numerous other haiku awards and was honored by the Emperor and Empress of Japan by invitation to attend the Imperial New Year?s Poetry Party as a guest at the Palace in Tokyo in 1998. Jane Reichhold was a gifted writer, translator and teacher of the art of haiku and other Japanese forms. The international haiku community is lessened by her passing. View all posts by Jane Reichhold
Nice visuals.
eagle eye—
two landscapes joined
by a pulling thread
dry riverbed – the rainy season fills the farmer's calendar
Dear Jane,
Terrific!
canyon stream
dried to a slit
of clear sky
(included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
—JANE REICHHOLD
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rain on the river the jesus star shifting
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize 2012 Anthology Evening Breeze
Jane, I wasn't surprised to see this was your work. You have a way of nailing a moment. Another perfect haiku.
Beautiful haiku, Jane, that lets us view the world through your poetic eye and be transformed by it.
Great to see you here, Jane :)
I really like how the narrator's viewpoint shifts from the vastness of a canyon stream down to a tiny slit of water in the river bed, and the fact it is 'a slit of clear sky' opens this up again. Lovely.
marion
Startling shifts of perspective. That slit of sky is wonderful. For a moment it almost reads as though the scene is being viewed through a gap in the rocks. The reality is just as arresting.
Jo McInerney
Was just came to knew about haiku and i like this one. Now i'm understanding how a haiku is formed.
Lovely – although I live in a different area, I can see this poem. Thank you.
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