My little Siamese cat Sonechka died six years ago today. You may see my  haiga with Sonechka  (click on the link), and open tag "sonechka" (above the post) to read haibun, and see sumi-e of her. And now -- a new haiga, and a few more pictures here:    --    Шесть лет назад умерла Сонечка. Вот тут (нажимайте на ссылку)  моя давняя   хайга с Сонечкой ( Read more... )

New issue of the Asahi Shimbun / Asahi Haikuist Network, November 7th -- with my haiku in it :

Michigan park --
a family of Canadian geese
under Japanese pine

Origa (Michigan)
This time, there are several fantastic haiku in the column, including the ones in the Editor's "From the notebook" (below the haiku column).  Read the haiku here:

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It's mid-autumn, my favorite time of the year. Thank you everyone who participated in the Japanese classic haiku exercise -- I am preparing the final analyses, it should be ready in a couple of days.Meanwhile, some news in this mood :)  New material is posted in James Hackett's web site : as you can see, it includes new reading of his poems (pay ( Read more... )

Such a friend she was ...


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Two haiku sequences of mine have been published in the February, 2005 issue of the LYNX , a magazine of Jane and Werner Reichhold: LOSING A PET, and JUST ONE AUTUMN DAY ...

http://ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/201solo.html

(scroll down to Origa(Olga Hooper) to read the poems)

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Sasha and Sonya. Haibun.

Severe winter, for several days we have -40C. Sasha is a 14 years old freshman in the College of Arts. He skipped a year in high school, and was enrolled into the College thanks to "an exceptional favor". He comped his remaining high school requerements while at the same time taking all the necessary first year college ( Read more... )