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. View all posts by Lorraine A Padden
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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)
Nice soundings Lorraine!
Good navigating to true north, Alan!
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scuttlebutt in the night-fog rolling in
leapin lizards!
fox den
the scuttling of mice
I love all of these variations!! Scuttling and asphalt are particularly evocative words, no?
Martin :-)
long hard rain my compass your true north
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Frogpond 36.1 • 2013
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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!