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/ Haiku
Every now and then
I write a haiku – this one
is about writing haiku
Renga with Ginka Biliarska
In July last year I attended the World Haiku Association conference East Meets West in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the organisers of the conference, Ginka Biliarska, who was kind enough to meet us at the airport and pay for our taxi into the city, had previously asked if I would like to do a little renga with her, and so we composed a few poems via email, entitled “A House On the Bank”. Now, the poems have been published in Lynx: a journal for linking poets. Ginka has also written renga with other poets using the same title – you can read all of them at Lynx but for convenience I’ve also pasted our poem below:
A HOUSE ON THE BANK
Ginka Biliarska, Bulgaria
David Prater, Australia
house on the bank
the river flows
but time has stopped
just like the white moon
in the child?s dark room
sun beam ?
the sleepy dog is driving it
away from his nose
dust
from old cushions
fills the summer day
opal window glass
flickering sunspots outside
friendly fires ?
smoke that crosses the threshold
between our two worlds
Beijingku
two fluffy white buns
filled with nothing but hot air
ah, spring in beijing!†
filled with nothing but hot air
ah, spring in beijing!†
Shanghaiku
outside my window
a hundred games of mah-jonng
spring rain in shanghai
a hundred games of mah-jonng
spring rain in shanghai
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breaks into sunshine like a
dog upon a pond
reflections collide
in the state forests full of
green ukrainians
built a big square pool
a private lesiure centre
up past anglesea
beware the great ocean
roads corrugation wonder
tyres love the earths drains
some shattered morning
a koala a chainsaw
australian dreams
of horizontal
views of empty posession
of a level plane
up past angahook
beyond the loggers canvas
camps desolation
sounds like yesterday
bitterness as currency
some velvent yawning
too little dreaming
empty materialist
non-conformity
worn like a warning
batteries silent missiles
on the old fritz time
for thermals time to
hit whats left of tomorrow
helling all the day
another petrol
tank to fill time for dreaming
to commence your wish
will now begin take
a deep breath begin to walk
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