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
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Tuesday, 26 July 2022
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
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
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Saturday, 11 September 2021
INVITATION - Rengay by Bee Jay/Sherry Grant
Invitation
too shy
to show my face
drifting leaf
full makeup on
turning the car around
road rage
swear words cut across
my apology
hard brake
the steady stare
of a startled deer
99 missed calls
birds chatter in trees
returning
the wedding dress
no refund
Bee Jay/Sherry Grant
WILD - a rengay written by Sherry Grant/Bee Jay
Wild
the school
partly hidden by mist
first day
still hanging on…
laughter at the park
lunch monitor
the pebble pushed
into an enemy’s pie
dancing
around the edge
friendship ring
hiding from bullies
behind the prickly pear
graduation
he plucks a wild rose
for her corsage
Bee Jay/Sherry Grant
Translation of WILD into Chinese by Sherry Grant -
狂野
作者：蜂 / 火の鳥
中文翻譯：火の鳥
上學第一天
部分校園被
濃霧籠罩
公園的笑聲
猶在耳際
午餐糾察隊
我在敵手吃的派裡
偷偷放了一顆石子
圍在邊上
跳舞
朋友圈（友誼戒指）
為了躲避惡霸
我藏在仙人掌後面
畢業典禮
他親自為她摘了朵
野玫瑰插在胸前
Monday, 21 June 2021
COLLABORATIONS - RENGAY
FIREFLIES' LIGHT Issue 23, June 2021
WILD
By Bee Jay (Australia) and Sherry Grant (NZ) (Op.2131)
2021-06-17
the school
hidden inside fog
first day — bj
still hanging on…
laughter in the park— sg
beauty parade
at the beach
homing pigeons— sg
lunch monitor
a pebble pushed
into my enemy’s pie— bj
running from bullies
prickly pear bushes— bj
blue sky
all the wild lupins
after
rain— sg
FAILED HAIKU 69, Sept 2021
Invitation
Bee Jay, Australia
Sherry Grant, New Zealand
too shy
to show my face
drifting leaf
full makeup on
turning the car around
road rage
swear words cut across
my apology
hard brake
the steady stare
of a startled deer
99 missed calls
birds chatter in trees
returning
the wedding dress
no refund
邀請
作者：蜂 / 火の鳥
中文翻譯：火の鳥
害羞得
不敢露面
飄落之葉
在濃妝豔抹後
卻決定把車子調頭
路上怒火中燒
的司機謾罵
我連聲道歉
緊急煞車
受到驚嚇的野鹿
雙眼瞪直
99條未接來電
樹上群鳥嘰嘰喳喳
歸還那件
結婚禮服
可惜不能退款
Wild
Bee Jay, Australia
Sherry Grant, New Zealand
the school
partly hidden by mist
first day
still hanging on…
laughter at the park
lunch monitor
the pebble pushed
into an enemy’s pie
dancing
around the edge
friendship ring
hiding from bullies
behind the prickly pear
graduation
he plucks a wild rose
for her corsage
狂野
作者：蜂 / 火の鳥
中文翻譯：火の鳥
上學第一天
部分校園被
濃霧籠罩
公園的笑聲
猶在耳際
午餐糾察隊
我在敵手吃的派裡
偷偷放了一顆石子
圍在邊上
跳舞
朋友圈（友誼戒指）
為了躲避惡霸
我藏在仙人掌後面
畢業典禮
他親自為她摘了朵
野玫瑰插在胸前
Thursday, 28 January 2021
MY HAIKU PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES & ANTHOLOGIES 2014 - 2021
THE FOOTY ALMANAC 30th Sept 2014
precise
Roughhead's
smooth kick
agile hawks swoop
on the slow swans
goal achieved
CREATRIX 38, Sept 2017
hospital newsshe deadheadsthe rosebush
THE FOOTY ALMANAC 13 October 2017
making love
while the experts talk —
change of tactics
FAILED HAIKU Vol 2 #23 Nov 2017
big night out
I try to unlock my door
with her lipstick
lazy love
the movie reaches its climax
before we do
wine bar
I tell you I know little
about love
leggings
the shape of things
to come
he keeps telling me
he has nothing
to say
he has nothing
to say
big lie
my twisted
logic
FAILED HAIKU Vol 2 # 24 Dec 2017
postcards
written to my mother
no name or address
rainbow
the bearded woman asks
how I voted
a postcard
from an ex
in a novel I'm re-reading
leaving me the leaves follow you
HUSK #3
poolside drinks
the overweight man goes
skinny-dipping
the doctor
finishes her double shift...
day moon
schoolyard -
trees in a gale bend
towards the gate
when I’m dead
tell them I was a leaf
on a waterfall
CREATRIX 40, March 2018
new year
only one full bottle left
standing
scattered clouds
the scent of a rose
as it falls
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaborative, April 2018
street violencethe dead raven’s eyestill looking at me
old world sparrowstwo homeless men readingone Proust
half deaf
she enjoys the silenceof birdsong
CHRYSANTHEMUM #23 April 2018
CHRYSANTHEMUM #23 April 2018
tall blonde … große Blondine ...
even moonlight falls sogar das Mondlicht verliebt sich
for her in sie
UNDER THE BASHO Modern Haiku 2018
my bad temper—
wind rips blossoms
from the tree
cold shoulder
frost sparkles on a blade
of grass
hospice
a final leaf trembles
on the oak
bare trees
at the orphanage
dead end road
a shadow
slides into shadows
sudden chill
he cannot recall
his mother's face
tangled seaweed
ephemerae 1, May 2018
yellow leaves a boy throws ripples into a pond
HEDGEROW #123 Spring 2018
a dead leaf hangs
off the indoor plant
job interview
FROGPOND Vol 41:2 Spring/Summer 2018
wild roses
she catches him kissing
her sister
SCRYPTIC 2:1 June 2018
suicide note
mist gathers around
the street light
sleepless night
a train drags the sun
into my day
THE FOOTY ALMANAC 8th October 2018
close loss
the party next door
goes quiet
2018 CREATRIX HAIKU PRIZE
Commended:
hospital news
she dead heads
the rose bush
hospital news
she dead heads
the rose bush
CATTAILS Oct 2018
cherry slice
the waitress brings me
her cleavage
backyard pool
a confident man dives
into the conversation
HUSK #12 Nov 2018
scan results
she visits the patient
in a see-through top
drifting blossoms
she says she doesn’t know me
any more
thermal underwear
not enough to warm
my heart
first anniversary
she wears my scarf
as a skirt
a farmer gossips
about his neighbours...
ears of corn
nudist beach
no label on the bottle
of sunscreen
he never looked
more healthy
now that he's sick
dressing room
the actor turns on
a fan
clubs are trumps stupid men
scarred wrist
darkness at the bottom
of the cliff
UNDER THE BASHO MODERN HAIKU | Bee Jay 2018
a shadow
slides into shadows
sudden chill
he cannot recall
his mother's face
tangled seaweed
FAILED HAIKU Vol 3 No 36 Dec 2018
thermal underwear
not enough to warm
my heart
in the river
in the rain
in love
scan results
she visits the patient
in a see-through top
she recites
my poem to stop me
coming
pub argument
the unisex toilet
out of order
empty bottle
with the poker she moves
two logs together
IS/LET Feb 2019
my father was a gun underwater weeds
the orphan's
best friends both old
scattered acorns
HAIKU 2016: 100 NOTABLE KU from 2015 (Anthology)(Is/let?)
the orphan'sbest friends both oldscattered acorns
CREATRIX 44 March 2019
the chick
with a broken wing
cupped palms
a huntsman
above the single bed
a cross
floating dandelion
all the locked windows
at the hospital
cracked earth
in the paddocks—
Give Way sign
lost shoe
dead end streets
all around me
CREATRIX #46 Sept 2019
first coffee
a dandelion spore lands
at my feet
worried nurses
the two broken arms
of a gurney
FRAMELESS SKY #12 July 2020
windy bus stop
forgotten if he’s coming
or going
at the end of the road another road
HAIKU IN THE TIME OF COVID 19 - 2020 (Anthology)
lockdown Monday
just another sparrow
in the crew
CREATRIX ANTHOLOGY 3: 2017 - 2019
hospital news
she deadheads
the rosebush
new year
only one full bottle
left standing
floating dandelion
all the locked windows
in the hospital
cracked earth
in the paddocks
Give Way Sign
THE FOOTY ALMANAC Nov 2020
sexting
all of a sudden
it’s close
FAILED HAIKU Vol 6 Issue 62 JAN 2021
COVID CURFEW (sequence)
colourful masks
my neighbour brings a new
date home
midnight moon
a champagne cork comes
over the fence
vodka on the porch
I blow a smoke ring
to the moon
her drifting laugh
and the clink of flutes
perfume through the conifer
hole in the fence
they're ballroom dancing
under the clothesline
my neighbour
kissing those lipstick lips
mosquito on my neck
last smoke
I remember how my wife
used to smile at me
sirens sculling the drink the floor falling at me
brushing my teeth
a spider crawls out
of the plughole
bed
blankets
black out
PRUNE JUICE 33, March 2021
walking home
from the pub
the moon
goes the wrong
way
spider on my wall
every day the death count
higher
lockdown the key to get out of missing you
PER DIEM THE HAIKU FOUNDATION 29th March 2021
bogong moth
the backyard daffodils
dip at dusk
CREATRIX 52 March 2021
watching
the cricket
still life
EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaborative, April 2021
death of a friend
I swallow the orange
pips
FAILED HAIKU April 2021 Vol 6 Issue 64
THE AFFAIR
hole in her stockings
he resists the temptation
to touch it
swimming pool
her cleavage deeper
than usual
water lilies
he writes haiku
up her inner thigh
the slow way
her lips open
birdsong in rain
his hand
on her hand
over his hand
wild roses
she catches him kissing
her sister
marriage ties
blossoms break free
in the breeze
forgive me he says
I have been a prick
cactus flower
day moon
his regrets in her slippers
under the bed
empty heart
struggling to close her
suitcase
OTOROSHI Number 1, Spring 2021
incoming tide
under the driftwood
a sawn-off leg
COLD MOON Tuesday, April 27, 2021
train timetable
she tells me her period
is late
COLD MOON April 29, 2021
six feet apart
or six feet below
distant bells
FAILED HAIKU Vol 6 No 65 May 2021
anniversary
cross at the thought
of my ex
unsafe sex
I ride the Harley
without a helmet
cold shoulder
a sparkle on a blade
of grass
unsettled thoughts
an open window at the top
of the building
sleeping with an editor
she adjusts my position
they tell me
to stay safe...do they think
I'm dangerous
her list
of things wrong with me…
I add to it
COLD MOON JOURNAL 8th May 2021
people scatter...
an unexpected explosion
of sunshine
THE DAILY HAIKU 19th May 2021
wild roses
she catches him kissing
her sister
FAILED HAIKU 'Back from the Dead' Vol 6 No 66
his two cents worth
inflation has not hit
opinions yet
OTOROSHI Number 2, Summer 2021
climate change
the tree with its hands
around my throat
FIREFLIES' LIGHT Issue 23 June 2021
LOCK (rengay Sherry Grant & Bee Jay)
new roads
to the cemetery
leaves at the entrance (BJ)
a lock of hair
still I smell her perfume (SG)
overdose
is it really her
in the eulogy (BJ)
dark clouds
gathering loneliness
I
should have known (SG)
chilly wind
smoking at the
crematorium (BJ)
the rain pauses —
I raise my glass
to
a sinking sun (SG)
THE BAMBOO HUT Number 2, 2021
tall woman
with a long stemmed rose--
short kiss
bee in a rose--
we make love quickly
in her garden
at the exhibition
she shows me her breast
I say i like it
adultery
her husband shows me
his knife
her sly wink
the tree shakes off
another leaf
MAHMIGHT HAIKU JOURNAL 25 June 2021
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
FAILED HAIKU Number 67, July 2021
so wasted
but still writimng
good haiju
she steals my heart
as I stare at blossoms
petty thief
after the neighbours' complaints
our music louder
of somebody's baby
SUCKING MANGOES NAKED (anthology)
at the end
of the blossoms
her lingerie
drifting snow
her hand caresses the back
of his neck
endless night
can I forgive myself
for hurting you
farewell sex –
thoughts of you coming
into my life
he turns up early
to weed her herb patch
red negligee
I follow
a trail of blossoms --
her open door
kissing
beside the washed dishes
boiling kettle
kissing
on the couch
snail trail
long kiss
the smell of burning
toast
overcast
a rainbow appears
on her face
red tulips --
sunshine lingers
on her skin
she stands
beneath a waterfall
moss on rocks
sparkling eyes –
jasmine flowers flow
into the room
sudden downpour
beside the swollen river
we keep kissing
your kisses
all around my neck
your fingers
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