visitors coming
where to hide
our bad habits
(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
Dear Jane, I am enjoying this very much. And here’s one for you:
Nothing like the holidays
for renewing
old grievances
We're not hiding anything at the Haiku Foundation Digital Library, where Jane's bountiful 'Dictionary of Haiku' is available to be read in full.
Garry Eaton
DigLib
Christmas morning
the house full
of the scent of pine
It applies well to human nature.
__A dusting dilemma_?
poinsettia
on this dusty end-table
the cats foot prints
Oooops, missed some den-dust.
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visitors coming
where to hide
our bad habits
(Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
—JANE REICHHOLD
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Taxi customers can have terrible habits that they wilfully bring with them from a can of beer and a kebab and even worse. :-)
Here's one that thankfully had no visible habits showing…
Ganesha's moon
the cabbie’s last customer
smells of mint tea
Alan Summers
brass bell: a haiku journal (November 2014)
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Jane,
Perfect timing, this one — a classic.
–Theresa C.
artificial tree . . .
the day I first believed
there is no Santa Claus
A beauty, Jane.
Bill Kenney
Oh, Jane, this made me laugh out loud – probably because I recognise myself in it!
Best wishes to you and Werner for 2016. :)
marion