telling me over and over the undertow
haiku & other small poems
telling me over and over the undertow
Growing up first in the Seaford Beach/Kananook Creek area and then in Cann River, Croajingolong country, East Gippsland, formed Lorin?s sense of belonging to the natural world. Lorin began writing haiku in 2004. She served on the judging panel for the Haiku Dreaming Awards (2009), on the The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Books Awards Panel (2010, 2011 and 2012) and was co-judge with Lee Gurga for the H.S.A.?s 2018 Henderson Haiku Awards. Lorin was haiku editor for the first nine (quarterly) issues of Notes From the Gean (2009 ? 2011) and subsequently publisher of A Hundred Gourds (2011 ? 2016) where she served as haiku editor, features editor, managing editor and in other editorial roles. In 2014 she founded the 'Red Kelpie Haiku Group' (Melbourne, Australia), convening four meetings each year until the group broke up subsequent to its twentieth meeting in June 2019. Over the years, Lorin's haiku have received awards and been included in excellent anthologies. Books Published: 'a wattle seedpod' (Post Pressed, Teneriffe, Qld, Australia, 2008); e-chapbooks: 'what light there is' (3Lights Gallery, 2009) and 'A Few Quick Brushstrokes', a winner of the Snapshot Press e-chapbook competition, 2011. All three publications are available online, free of charge. View all posts by Lorin Ford
Lorin, I love this. It’s everything a good haiku/senryu should be: immersive and brief.
Very nice. A story lurking there in “undertow”.
This one really works!
Beautiful, Lorin. Spare, and precise but enigmatic, like so much of your work.
Very nice, Lorin. Agree with Lynne about your spare and precise but enigmatic work.
Thank you.
ground swell
the day moon draws closer
Been there, done that and could never have told as well as you! Best!
Hi, Lorin. I am a great admirer of your haiku and this one is no exception. Very nice!
This draws me in like an undertow.
Very moving, haunting and so applicable to our time of covid.