break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
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Vanessa Proctor
Vanessa Proctor is immediate past president of the Australian Haiku Society. Her haiku, as well as appearing in print and online, has been carved in stone, printed on tea bag labels and set to music.
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break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
—VANESSA PROCTOR
Wonderful!
I remember rainbow lorikeets flying straight at me, in their hundreds, at Mission Beach, incredible feeling.
They must have been a visual and aural sight in all that plum blossom, What a privilege! :-)
***
in the tropical air
rainbow lorikeets–
a mango restaurant closed
Alan Summers
note: Mission Beach, Queensland
Publication credit: Mirrors, USA ed. Jane Reichhold
Collections:
Moonlighting, Intimations Pamphlet Series, British Haiku Society, (1996)
sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998
Anthology:
unfinished renga with Merrill Ann Gonzales
Into Sunlight (snow on the water, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1998)
break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
—VANESSA PROCTOR
Wonderful!
I remember rainbow lorikeets flying straight at me, in their hundreds, at Mission Beach, incredible feeling.
They must have been a visual and aural sight in all that plum blossom, What a privilege! :-)
***
in the tropical air
rainbow lorikeets–
a mango restaurant closed
Alan Summers
note: Mission Beach, Queensland
Publication credit: Mirrors, USA ed. Jane Reichhold
Collections:
Moonlighting, Intimations Pamphlet Series, British Haiku Society, (1996)
sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998
Anthology:
unfinished renga with Merrill Ann Gonzales
Into Sunlight (snow on the water, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1998)