Thank you to editor Daipayan Nair for accepting these poems.
a newspaper
on the picnic rug
hospital garden
the last train under a black cloud overcoats
I take a break
from resting
curled leaves
Monday, 30 October 2023
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology
Thank you to the editors Scott, Reeves and Proctor for publishing these poems.
wild roses
she catches him kissing
her sister
lockdown the key to get out of missing you
hospital news
she deadheads
the rosebush
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Bee Jay
‘wild roses’ Frogpond Vol. 41:2 Spring/Summer 2018
‘lockdown’ Prune Juice: Journal of senryu and related forms 33, March 2021
‘hospital news’ Creatrix 38 Haiku, September 2017
The Pan Haiku Review inaugural issue (Spring 2023)
Many thanks to editor Alan Summers for selecting two of my haiku for this issue -
white falling rose petals ambulance door
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immortal after physical death metaverse
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Blo͞o Outlier Journal issue 3
bogong moth
the backyard daffodils
dip at dusk
Bee Jay
Thank you to editor Alan Summers for wanting to publish this shy, little poem.
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
FAILED HAIKU #80 August 2022
both parents were snakes cracked eggs
muddy grave
the falling rose petal
in a widow's eyes
day moon
regrets in slippers
under the bed
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Failed Haiku #78, June 2022 (The food issue)
if I can’t kill it
I can’t eat it
first day of spring
her tongue
on my tongue
ice-cream
dinner date
the single mum’s
leaking breast
I can’t eat it
first day of spring
her tongue
on my tongue
ice-cream
dinner date
the single mum’s
leaking breast
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Frameless Sky Issue 16, June 2022
bombed farms
the tank towed away
by a tractor
abandoned tank
bogged in a cornfield
the elderly woman
shooting a Russian soldier
with insults
Friday, 8 April 2022
Failed Haiku Issue 76 April 2022
Editor: Mike Rehling
end of holidays still on holiday
first of April
a bouquet the colour
of guilt
restrictions ease
surrounding houses
creep closer
mountain retreat
I receive a postcard
of a molehill
words with friends
a triple word score
with basho
Bee Jay
https://beejay40.blogspot.com
Monday, 28 February 2022
Creatrix 56, March 2022
Thanks to the editors for selecting two of my poems for this issue.
flat champagne...
on midnight he kisses
her photo
again he falls
for a woman in pain
partial eclipse
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
The Modern Kigo Competition winner
Winner. 1st place. Alan Summers. United Kingdom
February 2022
New kigo: creeping sepia
Season: Autumn
Definition: The transition into Autumn (Fall) as Summer fades, with a growing mixture of climate change effects, and nostalgia for when the seasons were clearly defined.
creeping sepia
the rustle of non-humans
at first light
The contest was judged by Réka Nyitrai and Alan Peat.
FULL DETAILS -
https://weirdlaburnum.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-modern-kigo-competition-results%EF%BF%BC/?fbclid=IwAR015s85JULc9TOj9qp8CR40eF7HUE3h4JsTDpWy327aKnt4zbJWKDag6yQ
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Thursday, 23 December 2021
HEDGEROW 137 January 2022
Hedgerow Journal is compiled and edited by Caroline Skanne. My thanks to her for publishing this work.
frost covers
the bedroom window
I apologise
the bedroom window
I apologise
Bee Jay
Monday, 20 December 2021
Haiku published in Cold Moon Journal 10th December 2021
Cold Moon Journal is compiled and edited by Roberta Beach Jacobson. Many thanks to her for publishing some of my work.
open wide
says my narrow-minded
dentist
BEE JAY
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
2021 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai
My contribution to this night game.
first star
still we keep on
waiting
Bee Jay
Saturday, 11 September 2021
Butterfly Dream Haiku Anthology
NeverEnding Story Anthology Submission Guidelines
A haiku or a tanka without "rhetoric" was likely to be no more than a brief observation without poetic tension or illumination.
-- Donald Keene, The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki, p 57.
Butterfly Dream Haiku Anthology
Send your best published haiku (please provide publication credits) or new work and a bio sketch (50 words max.) with the subject heading "Published or Unpublished Haiku, Your Name, Submitted Date" to Chen-ou Liu via email at neverendingstory_haiku(at)yahoo.ca And place your haiku directly in the body of the email. DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS.
No more than twenty haiku per submission and no simultaneous submissions. And please wait for at least three months for another new submission.
Please note that only those whose haiku are accepted will be notified within three weeks, and that no other notification will be sent out, so your works are automatically freed up after three weeks to submit elsewhere.
The accepted haiku will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and Twitter (You are welcome to follow Chen-ou Liu on NeverEnding Story - http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/, or to follow NeverEnding Story on Twitter at @storyhaikutanka).
The best 66 haiku will be included in the anthology, and the poet whose poem is chosen as the best haiku of all submitted haiku will be given a 3-page space to feature the haiku of his/her choice. Each poet in the anthology will receive a copy of the e-book edition.
My haiku in MahMight haiku journal
MahMight haiku journal
Friday, 25 June 2021
Bee Jay is breathing and Susan Burch finds a love note
i am the joey
breathing in my dead mother’s
pouch
Bee Jay
Bee Jay says:
“Sometimes a haiku can take years of thought and revisions. Sometimes one pops out seemingly fully formed. This haiku came out of me suddenly after I spent a few weeks reading experimental haiku and Japanese gendai on social media and in journals such as Heliosparrow, is/let, and Otoroshi.
I placed my fresh haiku into a workshop group to gauge responses and to see how I could improve it, but despite the sentence structure and the personification/anthropomorphism, the reaction to it was very positive, including a surprising request from Alan Summers to submit it to his new journal.”
one favourite haiku and why
I compiled a list of 30 of my fave contemporary haiku and then selected Susan Burch's haiku out of that.
washed jeans―
his love note
still dirty
Susan Burch
Honourable Mention 4th Annual Senryu Contest,
Sonic Boom July 2018
Bee Jay says:
“In 2014, Susan Burch was one of the first poets to write constructive comments and expert advice on my haiku and she later gave me the confidence to begin submitting my work. Her haiku and senryu often move me and this one is one of my faves.
In this poem I see a fresh, new romance where lust and passion colours everything and even the most simple sentence contains sexual innuendo. I can imagine the kinds of words written in that note. The jeans could be hers or his but I prefer to think they’re hers. The love note is ‘still’ dirty which makes me believe she’s read it before.
On the other hand, there is also the possibility that this is a dark poem about an illicit love affair and that she finds this dirty note in his jeans. This kind of ambiguity is one I admire in a haiku, I luv the idea that a haiku can be seen as positive in one reading and then so negative in another.”
favourite quote from Waiting for Godot
“There's no lack of void.”
Withnail and I
“Give me a Valium, I'm getting the fear.”
Alan note:
Also enjoy my own commentary, as the contest judge, on Susan Burch’s haikai verse:
“Being Human - the ordinary intensity”
a look at senryu
https://area17.blogspot.com/2018/06/being-human-ordinary-intensity-look-at.html
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