watercolor painting showing a beach with a small blue creek flowing past boulders to the sea. On the right, a steep green hill with trees. Lower left, the text of the haiku: mouth of the river/an ever-changing story/told to the sea

mouth of the river
an ever-changing story
told to the sea

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Annette Makino

Annette Makino is a poet and artist who writes haiku and senryu and illustrates her poems with Japanese ink paintings. Her pieces, comprising a few words and brushstrokes, convey a quiet Zen perspective and gentle sense of humor. There is a gallery of her work at www.makinostudios.com.

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  5. Beautiful…

    Once,
    Up and On
    a
    time
    there was a drop (rain)
    flowing over a mountain towards a sea (river)
    ….
    Thank you

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  6. Annette,

    Your art and haiku are superb individually, And outstanding as haiga.

    Everyone I have sent your cards to has commented on their beauty and the warm feeling they elicit.

    Thanks,

    Marita

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  12. Such lovely paint work and verse Annette, wondrous_!
    __ I could easily be condemned for my minimal, unskilled and drifty imagination. Because, as I first saw this painting a day ago, I envisioned that center stone as a face… winking at yesterday's failures passing by… to hide within that collective sea. _m

    stone face
    as its right eye winks
    this passage

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