stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin
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Richard St. Clair
Richard St. Clair was born in 1946. He has been a haiku poet since 1994, a tanka poet since 2001 and a renku poet since 2012. He is also a classically trained composer of symphonies and sonatas.
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Wonderful!
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Some of us seek silence or stillness and some of us shun it.
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stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin
—RICHARD ST. CLAIR
Very painterly, just like Peter Doig's famous artwork, and that edge of tension between peace and quiet and calamity.
Just as there's tension in a water surface so there is in life elsewhere.
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our clouds of breath
the river bank reveals
its water vole
Alan Summers
From the haibun Strange Bed
Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society)
Vol. 27 no. 1 (February 2017)
and
sewer rat
breaking the water surface
its shut eye
Alan Summers
First Publication credit:
Haiku Spirit #16 Eire, (1999)
Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
mute swan
circles the pond
ripples abound~~~
Beautiful.
Nicely done,
I can hear the very faint sound
I wish it were warm enough here to get mine out
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Wonderful!
.
Some of us seek silence or stillness and some of us shun it.
.
.
stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin
—RICHARD ST. CLAIR
Very painterly, just like Peter Doig's famous artwork, and that edge of tension between peace and quiet and calamity.
Just as there's tension in a water surface so there is in life elsewhere.
.
.
our clouds of breath
the river bank reveals
its water vole
Alan Summers
From the haibun Strange Bed
Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society)
Vol. 27 no. 1 (February 2017)
and
sewer rat
breaking the water surface
its shut eye
Alan Summers
First Publication credit:
Haiku Spirit #16 Eire, (1999)
Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
I feel and hear the water, air in the trees. Beautiful poem truly immersive.