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

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

Presence Issue 72, March 2022

 Editor: Ian Storr

marriage ties—

blossoms break free

in the breeze

Prune Juice 36, March 2022

 Editor: Tia Haynes

doorways
now so narrow
middle age

Bee Jay, Australia

The Mamba Issue 13, 2022

 Haiku to be revealed after publication date

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

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

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

Failed Haiku, Issue 74 February 2022

 

the alien 

in our friendship group

alienated

Bee Jay

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

Bee Jay

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