tracing a hexagon

tracing a hexagon
the brightest star
glowing

🔸


Publish in the March 15, 2020, issue of Fireflies’ Light.
John J. Han, Ph.D.
Professor of English and Creative Writing.

dew light

dew light
the cardinal returns
a call

🔸


Fireflies’ Light
https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/
Editor John J. Han
Publish in the March 15, 2020, issue of Fireflies’ Light.

blind man

 。

a blind man 

stops to listen...

crossing hawks

~ Christina Chin 

耳澄ます盲人のゐて鷹渡る 千秋

One of the two haiku featured in the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal which I'd like to share. I wrote this for Albert in his late forties who works as a masseur at the golf club. He takes a bus to work and back. He recognises anyone who stops to give him a lift from or to the bus stop by scent or sound. 

Autumn/Winter Issue 5:1

https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/

Fireflies’ Light ~ winter skies

winter skies
a lone wolf stares
in the horizon

🔸


Fireflies’ Light
https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/fireflies-light/
Editor John J. Han

Publish in the March 15, 2020, issue of Fireflies’ Light.

Shiki Day

 。

Shiki Day

even the gourd wind chime

ringing

~ Christina Chin 

瓢箪の風鈴鳴つて子規忌かな 千秋

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal

Autumn/Winter Issue 5:1

https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/

thousand stars

thousand stars

twinkle in midair

fairy lights

~ Christina Chin 

amber hearth

amber hearth

the strong aroma 

of mulled coffee 

windows tightly shut

windows tightly shut

the aroma of hot soup

escapes the chimney 

warm by the fire

warm 

by the fire

candles on the dinner table 

listen to the snow fall

listen to the snow fall

likens soft flutter

of butterflies 
 

Failed Haiku ~ carol practice

carol practice
the loudest little boy
out of tune

https://failedhaiku.com/2019/12/31/happy-new-year-issue-49-is-up/
1st January 2020
Failed Haiku Vol 3 Issue 49

Failed Haiku ~ all the reasons

all the reasons
in my head telling me
it won't hurt








"Secret Loves & Guilty Pleasures” edition of Failed Haiku, February 2020.
Guest Editors Tanya McDonald & Kelly

Poetry Pea ~ spirits

a shrill
breaks the silence
peat bog



🔸

🔸



Thrilled to have two haiku read in Series 2 Episode 20 Spirits by Patricia. Take a minute and listen to the podcast you'll be inspired.
https://poetrypea.com/series-2-episode-20-spirits/

HaikUniverse ~ Halloween

HaikUniverse 2019
Halloween Haiku (23 of 25) by Christina Chin
––––––––––––––––––––


electrocuted?
a riderless broom dangles
from a live wire



🔸

🔸




Haikuniverse
https://www.facebook.com/825396104246834/posts/2547533258699768/
https://twitter.com/haikuniverse/status/1190131636219891712?s=19

Per Diem ~ day moon

lantern festival
on a three-tiered tray
day moon 

🔸


My haiku in Per Diem, September 2019 Day Moon
The Haiku Foundation website selected by Madhuri Pillai.

The Cicada's Cry ~ incense smoke

incense smoke
shrouds the red moon
Obon festival

🔸

🔸

En français

la fumée d'encens
enveloppe la lune rouge
festival d'Obon
[Tr. Jean-Louis Chartrain]

🔸

台俳（Taiwanese Haiku)

香薰煙
掩藏赤月
法會祭
[Tr. Jimmycm Lin]
🔸

Assamese
ধূপৰ ধোঁৱাই
ৰঙা জোনক আৱৰে
অবন উৎসৱ
[Tr. Mafizuddin Chowdhury]
🔸

Taiwanese haiku
香煙霧
氤氳紅月
御盆祭
[Tr. Emily Êngtio̍k Lōa-Swain]
🔸

Italian

fumo d'incenso
copre la luna rossa
festa di Obon
[Tr. Rosa Maria Di Salvatore]
🔸







https://thecicadascry.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-cicadas-cry-special-edition-moon.html?m=1

Bleached Butterfly Magazine ~ street food

street food
and hell bank notes
Hungry Ghost Festival

🔸



Bleached Butterfly Magazine 
September 2019 
with Lori A Minor 

Around the Sun 365 Days ~ temple alms

temple alms
a thrush offers
its flute song


🔸






Around the Sun 365 Days
Haiku Book 
Editor Jessica Latham

Around the Sun 365 Days ~ more and more

Around the Sun 365 Days





more and more
the yodels of loons
spring light




Around the Sun 365 Days
Haiku Book 
Editor Jessica Latham

Around the Sun 365 Days ~ here and there

Around the Sun 365 Days





here and there
chitters echo the hollows
spring mountain



Around the Sun 365 Days
Haiku book 
Editor Jessica Latham 

Failed Haiku ~ spilling

spilling
over in the fridge
my neighbour's kindness


🔸




Failed Haiku Vol 3 Issue 45 September 2019 Editor Michael Rehling

Failed Haiku ~ postal assurance

our postal assurance
issue 6 arrives
a month after 7


🔸







Failed Haiku Vol 3 Issue 45 September 2019 Editor Michael Rehling

Hog Wild Haiku Publication ~ kids baking

kids baking
pet pig squeals
from the chair

🔸




Hog Wild, an anthology of pig poems
Editor Corine Timmer July 2019

Hog Wild Haiku Publication ~ Tuscany holiday

Tuscany holiday
the boar leads
us to truffles

🔸




Hog Wild, an anthology of pig poems
Editor Corine Timmer July 2019

Lyrical Passion ~ olive tree

steps
up the ancient courtyard
a fragrant olive tree

🔸



http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/japanese-short-form-pg7.php

Lyrical Passion ~ stilettos

stilettos
staccatos echo
Bugis Street

*red light district

🔸








http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/japanese-short-form-pg7.php

Lyrical Passion ~ red light district

red light district
I practice
a few winks


🔸





http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/japanese-short-form-pg7.php

Lyrical Passion ~ window doll

I'm THRILLED to have four haiku/senryu published by Lyrical Passion Poetry.
Thank you very much Raquel and Editorial Team!






window doll
uncrosses a leg
Amsterdam

🔸






http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/japanese-short-form-pg7.php

rice husking
in a hollow out stump
hot moon




Haiga “rice husking” for the SUMMER 2020 issue of Akitsu Quarterly 

Plum Tree Tavern ~ rice grains

rice grains heavy
against sky blue
red dragonflies

🔸

🔸


Plum Tree Tavern, Editor Russell Streur
premier in October 2019

Failed Haiku ~ Queen

Queen
on the radio
sings
I will rock you









🎶Mercury, radio ga ga

https://t.co/p8jok4Nmz6

https://failedhaiku.com/2019/11/05/issue-47-is-up-haiga-competition-results-included/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Failed Haiku ~ Facebook algorithms

Delighted four of my rock music haiku were selected by Michael Lester @mhlester





a smug unfollow
Facebook algorithms
boomerang






https://failedhaiku.com/2019/11/05/issue-47-is-up-haiga-competition-results-included/amp/?
Guest Editor Michael Lester 

Failed Haiku ~ fake tattoo

I try to write senryu
he stares down
my fake tattoo



*Cos I'm too punk for you


🔸











https://failedhaiku.com/2019/11/05/issue-47-is-up-haiga-competition-results-included included/amp/?
Guest Editor Michael Lester 

Failed Haiku ~ hey Mama

hey Mama
I call we talk
long distance





https://failedhaiku.com/2019/11/05/issue-47-is-up-haiga-competition-results-included/amp/?
Guest Editor Michael Lester 

The Cicada's Cry ~ umbrella

umbrella
a crane preens
in first light rain

The Cicada's Cry Winter Edition 2020.

Chrysanthemum ~ white lace

white lace
the bridesmaid sees
herself in the shop window



weiße Spitze
de Brautejungfer sieht sich
selbst im Shaufenster


🔸

🔸



Chrysanthemum 26, fall issue 2019
Very happy to have two haiku published in Chrysanthemum Haiku with German translations by Editor Beate Conrad. Here's one of them.
http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html

Chrysanthemums ~ sundress

sundress
flaps the clothesline
red polkadots


Sommerkleid
flattert um die Wäscheleine
rote Tupfen

🔸

🔸




Chrysanthemum 26, fall issue 2019
Editor Beate Conrad

Very happy to have two haiku published in Chrysanthemum Haiku with German translations by Editor Beate Conrad. Here's one of them.
http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html

Poetry Pea ~ men auction

Very happy to be included alongside amazing poets in The Poetry Pea podcast on "Men", November 2019.
🔸



bournemouth square
the old man busks
I kick up my heels






Do take a minute and listen to the podcast you'll be inspired by Patricia.
https://t.co/2AumrBX6VH

Poetry Pea ~ Bournemouth Square

So thrilled to be included alongside amazing poets in The Poetry Pea podcast on "Men", November 2019.





men auction
the rainforest
going going gone


🔸










Do take a minute and listen to the podcast you'll be inspired by Patricia.
https://t.co/2AumrBX6VH

Failed Haiku ~ hot date

grilled mushrooms
in Thai peanut sauce
hot date






https://failedhaiku.com/2019/12/31/happy-new-year-issue-49-is-up/
1st January 2020
Failed Haiku Vol 3 Issue 49

Asahi Shimbun ~ incense smoke

incense smoke
amid sidewalk offerings
winter solstice

http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201912200009.html
20th December 2019

Frameless Sky ~ homecoming

homecoming
on a phone line
the swallows' trills







Frameless Sky, Issue 11 ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Js0qedwmPA

https://framelesssky.weebly.com/purchase.html

The Haiku Foundation ~ citizenship

grown-up gran
jumps ship
citizenship









https://t.co/WW4K8LOwdJ

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/12/11/haiku-dialogue-dec-11-post/

Thanks to @kjmmjk15 Lori A Minor 

Poetry Pea ~ avian still life

For the poetrypea journal March 2020, in the animal section:





avian still life
the great blue heron
waits for food


🔸


https://poetrypea.com/series-3-episode-2-haiku-all-about-animals/

Re-side ~ long month

long month
the cicada's cry
yet to arrive

🔸






Re-side publication
Issue #3, Winter 2019
Editors Beth and Lizzie.

Bleached Butterfly Magazine ~ sequence

An experimental sequence of three monoku and a poem.

milliner's ex[act]ing client down her neck

p[arched] throat

tangled scarf a suffocating dream

screaming out
without
sound
without
sound
scream out
dream screaming

Bleached Butterfly Magazine, December 2019 issue
Editor Lori A Minor

Poetry Pea ~ Atilla

floppy
my bengal cat
Atilla









Grateful to have a second haiku read by Patricia in Poetry Pea podcast Series 2 Episode 23: #whoku. Do take a minute and listen to the podcast you'll be inspired.

https://poetrypea.com/series-2-episode-23-treats/

Poetry Pea ~ mixed vegetables

mixed vegetables 

the aroma of garlic 

in sizzling oil

🔸







Topic Recipes. 
Poetry Pea Podcast and Journal 
March 2020
http://www.poetrypea.com/

The Haiku Foundation ~ Climate change

responding
to climate change
y[our] duty

🔸







https://t.co/T9aVgRB0n1?amp=1

The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue
Climate Change 4th December 2019
Guest Editor Lori A Minor
Editor Kjmunro

Poetry Pea ~ greatgram

Chinese greatgram
an engraved tombstone spells
Veronica Voon


🔸








Elated to have a haiku read by Patricia in Poetry Pea podcast Series 2 Episode 23: #whoku. Do take a minute and listen to the podcast you'll be inspired.

https://poetrypea.com/series-2-episode-23-treats/

FemkuMag Haibun ~ Village Daughter-in-Law

Village Daughter-in-Law 


Early morning as I stand and watch this family beside the village pond, memories keep flooding back. A young woman in her twenties squats on a hardwood plank which slants into to water. She's washing clothes by the buckets for her extended family. A baby strapped to her back, a two year old on her right thigh on the other a three year old. Her four and five year olds play rinsing clothes on the edge where the plank submerges in the water. This chore done she starts her firewood stove preparing lunch, cleaning, ironing, dinner preparation it goes on.


play house
the one acting
mom 
always asks
where's the cane

~ Christina Chin





#FemkuMag Haibun Issue November 2019
Guest Editor Tia Haynes

Poetry Pea ~ mediterranean

mediterranean
coral craft bargains
sign language

🔸






The Voyages podcast, July 20th and the 3rd quarterly journal. 2020
http://www.poetrypea.com/

Poetry Pea ~ snowy egret

The poetrypea journal March 2020, in the animal section:




far end
busy stirring water
a snowy egret


🔸




https://poetrypea.com/series-3-episode-2-haiku-all-about-animals/

FemkuMag ~ after tanka

after tanka the emporer disrobes

🔸





https://femkumag.wixsite.com/home

Haiku Column ~ autumn clouds

10月11日
Haiku Column Daily Best



autumn clouds brim the summit
a rumbling sound

🔸

 【千秋訳】
頂上の縁に秋の雲
ゴロゴロと音がする

🔸

Plum Tree Tavern ~ frangipani

the scent
at her gravestone
frangipani

🔸










Plum Tree Tavern, Editor Russell Streur
premier in October 2019

FemkuMag ~ haibun feature

I'm honoured and thrilled to be selected for this month's feature and commentary by the Guest Editor, Elizabeth Alford.


FEMKUMAG FEATURE:

Growing Concerns

Coming to a halt along the river which divides this quaint old town. On both
banks of the river is a bustling but not congested bazaar connected by
concrete bridges. This is the only gazetted morning-till-night market for the
townsfolk which fringes and is perpendicular to the shop houses. At town's
end, close to the estuary across a quiet tombolo a view of low lying plains and
its eighteenth to nineteenth century architecture, I often ponder over the same
thought which crossed my mind for many years.

winter storms
the world powers ignore
water-level rise
my neighbours retreating
to higher grounds

~ Christina Chin


FEMKUMAG FEATURE: GUEST EDITOR’S COMMENTARY

From the moment I began reading this stunning tanka prose, the words on
the pages flew from my lips almost without my realizing it. There is an
authentic verbal cadence in the brief tour of this small coastal town, with its
flowing estuary, concrete bridges, and tombolo (a sandbar which connects an
island to the mainland or another island). The bazaar, the only “gazetted” (i.e.
advertised via the local newspaper) regular event, adds a paradoxical bustling
of activity.. There is a sense of tension between the moving and unmoving
people and landmarks, an urgency compounded by the closing tanka.
Abandoned by those in positions of power who could help the most, the
speaker’s neighbors “retreat to higher ground.” I couldn’t help noticing that it
is the speaker’s neighbors, not the speaker, who retreat. Yet the speaker
obviously lives here, or used to live here; obviously recognizes the danger, but
does not take action. Meanwhile, the townspeople’s geographical and political
isolation has left them exposed, vulnerable, and scrambling.
There is indeed a “growing concern” for high ground in these turbulent times,
moral or otherwise. Ultimately, it is hesitation and carelessness towards others
that does us in.

~ Elizabeth Alford


Thank you so very much for for the feature, Elizabeth.
Do check out this December's Issue of FemkuMag.
https://69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_7923b76706ca4e1a9e3db52c80dbdb36.pdf


Issue #19
https://femkumag.wixsite.com/home/issues

ESUJ-Haiku ~ tottering first steps

tottering first steps
his scrap paper kite
drags and bobs

🔸

Haiku judged by Emiko Miyashita
and Tesuya Kotaki (Haiku poets)
published in
ESUJ-Haiku
October, 2019 🔸
https://www.esuj.gr.jp/event/5_index_detail.php?fbclid=IwAR3PsWdECFCyD2G5VQgAbujfkbYEsLwrAXsd6BCc99_RXGnedP5TlrA9EVg

Bamboo Hut ~ blackout curtains

blackout curtains the moon peeps through a gap

🔸

🔸


The Bamboo Hut journal of English language tanshi Winter 2019
Editor Steve Wilkinson

Plum Tree Tavern ~ cormorant dives

cormorant dives
Li River's starlit water
an oar pauses









Editor Russell Streur
https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/

Plum Tree Tavern ~ frangipani

the scent
at her gravestone
frangipani






Editor Russell Streur.
https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/

Akitsu Haiga ~ alarm bell

alarm bell
a noodle seller's call
from a distance

🔸





Haiga published in Akitsu Winter issue November 2019 

Plum Tree Tavern ~ dawn light

dawn light
filters into the teacups
Mulu Caves canopy











Editor Russell Streur.
https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/

Haiku Column ~ campfire

dying campfire
a homeless bundled up in thick clothes

🔸


【千秋訳】
キャンプファイヤーが消えてゆく
厚着をしたホームレスが身を寄せ合う

🔸





Haiku Column Daily Best
30th December 2019

The Haiku Foundation ~ unspeaking couple

unspeaking couple
the man clicks
a lighter

🔸

In this week's Haiku Dialogue photo prompt with Guest Editor Craig Kittner
https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/10/02/haiku-dialogue-poets-choice-wine/
#theHaikuFoundation

FemkuMag ~ hot sake

hot sake coughs between haze





FemkuMag Issue 16 
September 2019 
Editor Lori A Minor

Bamboo Hut ~ new year day

new year day
the magpie repeats
last year's song

🔸

The Bamboo Hut journal of English language tanshi Winter 2019
Editor Steve Wilkinson

FemkuMag ~ detention camp

detention camp tears blind an eye




FemkuMag Issue 16 
September 2019 
Editor Lori A Minor