closing time
a stepladder holds
the last light

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Dietmar Tauchner

Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna, as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and attended the First and the Second European Haiku Conference, The Haiku North America Conference in 2005, as well as the World Haiku Association Conference 2009 in Lithuania, where he held lectures and readings. Co-Director of 4 short Haiku Films. www.bregengemme.net

7 thoughts on “”

  1. Very nice!
    When night blacks out the horizon
    The gaze is invited upward by twinkling stars
    Sky reveals his inner depth

  2. Well posed Dietmar!
    __ In my shallow intellect, the last light may always be another shining thought; a step up the ladder.

    ideas climb
    this ladder of many steps
    notions light

    _m

  3. .
    closing time
    a stepladder holds
    the last light

    —DIETMAR TAUCHNER
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    As youngsters many of us probably saw ladders of all designs as magical contraptions to visit places beyond the ordinary 'normal' world. A place to escape, if only for a few moments…
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    northern lights
    a boy makes a ladder
    out of his telescope

    Alan Summers
    Journal of The British Haiku Society:
    Blithe Spirit, 24:3, August 2014

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    Chinese versions by Chen-ou Liu
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