spider
in a web
trapping stars
(Originally published in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2020)
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Amy Losak
Amy Losak is a healthcare public relations consultant. In 2021, Amy won first place in the Haiku Society of America’s annual Gerald Brady memorial senryu contest. Amy’s and her late mother Sydell Rosenberg’s (a charter member of HSA) three books are: H Is For Haiku(Penny Candy Books, 2018; illustrated by Sawsan Chalabi; Amy wrote the introduction). This picture book was honored in 2019 by the National Council for Teachers of English as a “Notable Poetry Book.” Poised Across the Sky (Kattywompus Press, 2020. Syd’s mostly haiku and senryu chapbook.) Wing Strokes Haiku(Kelsay Books, 2022. A collaborative collection.) Amy also is a member of a group of Jewish authors, all women, who are “crazy” about children’s books: The Book Meshuggenahs: www.thebookmeshuggenahs.com. It serves as a resource for kids, families, and communities.
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Nice. Lovely image.
Thank you, Janet.
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spider
in a web
trapping stars
(Originally published in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2020)
—AMY LOSAK
As the Fast Show might say, "aren't spiders brilliant!"
Thank you!
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Night clouds
a spider shows me
the harvest moon
Alan Summers
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK By David McMurray (October, 2013)
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it’s a spider night
we huddle under stars
surveilling us
Alan Summers
Weird Laburnum (April 2020)
From the haibun: "The Angels of Lost Lists Part Zero: No One Is A List"
Beautiful, Alan!
Thanks Amy,
A combination of relying on different spiders to protect me in Australia, and well, gotta love 'em!
Alan
Lovely, Amy! Kudos on a well crafted poem.
Thanks so much, Peggy!
Blimey you or the spider have terrific eyesight!!!
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn!
Beautiful haiku Amy!
Dear Martin,
I'm thinking of getting Karen to create a new course called Leap of Faith, or The Long Leap, regarding haiku. There is the outer eye and the inner eye and then there is…
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nagaihiyaku
;-)
May your iPad and spiders be as boundless as the moons beyond our moon!
Alan
Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments. Amy
Apologies Amy, I enjoyed your poem very much and it did tickle me, thank you!