higher tides
crabs scuttling
on asphalt

 

 

 

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Lorraine A Padden

Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone Award winning poet and former professional ballet dancer whose career and scholarship in the performing and visual arts earned her an appointment to the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry has been honored by The Haiku Foundation, Tricycle Magazine, Haiku Society of America, Tokutomi International Haiku Competition, and the British Haiku Society, among others. Lorraine is a featured poet in A New Resonance 13, the renowned anthology showcasing emerging voices in English-language haiku. Upwelling, her critically acclaimed collection of haiku and related short forms was published in 2022.

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    higher tides
    crabs scuttling
    on asphalt

    —LORRAINE A. PADDEN

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    Love the contrast of tides to asphalt, and the texture switch!

    Despite living in Australia, and Queensland, and having been on Diamond Head, Hawaii, I'm surprised I have no crab haiku! But a few asphalt ones! :-)

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    drifting clouds along an asphalt of ice cream summer roads of longing

    one line haiku by Alan Summers
    part of "Pandemica’s Clouds" sequence

    Anthology:
    behind the mask: haiku in the time of Covid-19
    Singing Moon Press Pandemic Anthology ed. Margaret Dornaus (2020)

  2. Nice soundings Lorraine!

    Good navigating to true north, Alan!

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    scuttlebutt in the night-fog rolling in

  3. Martin :-)

    long hard rain my compass your true north

    Alan Summers
    Publication credits:
    Frogpond 36.1 • 2013
    and
    VerSuch … das projekt gendai haiku (1st July 2013)

    starker Dauerregen mein Kompass dein geographischer Norden
    trans. Ralf Bröker

    VerSuch … das projekt gendai haikuBers

    German by Ralph Broker

    German and gendai!

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