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Mu -- an international haiku journal
Thomas Williams Memorial Contest
Haiku in 7 words, 2nd place:

all thoughts
becoming cicada thoughts
relentless heat

Mu's comment: “all thoughts becoming / cicada thoughts” is simply one of the most graceful and affecting phrases we have ever read in the realms of modern haiku. There’s every sense and offshoot of oneness in this phrase that is arrived at time and time again in the many centuries of haiku’s various arts. The influence of summer, and its reigning natures, only adds to the feeling and fruition of inevitable oneness. There seems to be all of life on the brink in this haiku, with the pulse and limitations of life juxtaposed against the brief and regarded unfulfilled life of the cicada—all mortalities understood at once, even the ones affecting seemingly immortal things, like said, thoughts.

Mu's link: http://www.muhaikujournal.com/Mu_Haiku_Journal/Contest_2.html

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a note

after a bit of soul-searching, i've decided to set aside my haiga for future publication instead of blogging them. my feelings about publcation are complicated, so it's a decision that didn't come lightly. i will resume posting once my 'publication reservoir' starts to overflow.

i leave behind

beyond the trellis

such little effort

haiku IS

Haiku creates a word-framed void where ISness rushes in.

my burst-out-loud laugh

waiting for gnomes

her snow angel

the sprout

the depth

how gently

the crows too

one firefly

the shape

unfurling

the owl's call

finally i get it

the way the ocean