silence
the white space
around your poem

11 Responses

  1. Peggy Bilbro Says:

    Such a delicate poem. So lovely.

  2. Alan Summers Says:

    Lovely!
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    silence
    the white space
    around your poem

    —KJMUNRO
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    I've written a lot about white space & negative space as it fascinates me. Yes, the unsaid but sometimes still known and realised feelings and words that need not be said too.
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    white sails…
    a wind has also shaped
    the tree

    Alan Summers
    Azami #21 (Japan, 1994); reprinted Azami #22 & 27 (Japan, 1995); tinywords (2006); Aesthetics (Bath Spa University publication, Summer 2007)

    Anthology credits:
    a procession of ripples, an anthology of selected haiku ed. laryalee fraser (2006)
    Faces and Place ed. Don Baird (The Little Buddha Press 2015)
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    The wind is its own white space and more! Sometimes silent, sometimes a whisper, sometimes a roar, but always leaving negative or white space behind it.

  3. Donna Bruce Says:

    Where can I find more of your writing KJMUNRO?

  4. Alan Summers Says:

    Hi Donna,
    If you click onto Kathy's name under her haiku (—KJMUNRO) that will give you some bio info.
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    Plus
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    Also if you do an internet search with "KJMUNRO" haiku you will find a few wonderful results. Happy searching! :-)

    warm regards,
    Alan

  5. Barbara Tate Says:

    Love this one. A definite Yukon flavor.

  6. angiolainglese Says:

    very nice, Katherine, I really like the white color in the poem.

    separation-
    whiter than the moon
    white wisteria

  7. Mike Schoenburg Says:

    silent pond ?
    an iguana strolls by
    there goes my haiku

  8. Marilyn Walker Says:

    kj, what a beautiful haiku!

  9. Connie Says:

    Written retry well.

  10. kjmunro Says:

    thanks everyone for these kind words & the wonderful comments – I love the poems in response to other poems – & thanks especially Alan – an online search will turn up some work – & I have 2 leaflets with Leaf Press now
    cheers,kj

  11. Lesley Anne Swanson Says:

    superlative.

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