haiku-pupil

2012-01-12T09:20:00.000-08:00

Thank you, Krzystof and Haiku Euro Top.

The 12 days of Christmas at Lunch Break

2012-01-05T06:08:00.000-08:00

flickering candle
she only knows
this one song

after the meal
my dog pulls me
in a new direction

playing cards
the other ones
cheat

breakfast
the twins' parents
ask for white christmas

out into the garden
a handfull
bird

the last bottle
of this pack
she hides his key

lighting
each light
in every arm

to open a door
into a new year
sun

on ice
she finishes
in the middle of her turn

on legs and hands
Daddy becomes
a donkey

watching football
my son knows
all the names

lunch time
a pan full of
Nürnberger

First published on Gillena Cox's
very fine "Lunch Break" 2011/12

2011-12-28T08:11:00.000-08:00

The 95th WHA Haiga Contest (12/2011)

Cezar F. Ciobica ...

... is our new guest on Haiku from German Tongues. Please have a look at his haiku and biography.

2011-12-20T02:45:00.000-08:00

Listening to the sand

in a hourglass

a flickering candle

Asahi, December 16, 2011

Gabriele Reinhard ...

... ist our new guest on Haiku from German Tongues. Please feel free and have a look at Gabriele Reinhard: Lives, Paints, Writes.

2011-11-30T03:12:00.000-08:00

starlight
letting the red wine
breathe

Bye!?
Daughter:
– –

The Best Road

My godchild is going to show up for celebrating the Holy Communion. Still not having taken a shower, I walk the dogs our morning loop and get dragged along B54. Udo Lindenberg, a German rock singer, once wrote a song about that road. Being the best road of his town because it would lead out of it.

On my way home
a row of colored backs
in strawberry fields

In Chrysanthemum #10 you will find "crosses" instead of
"backs", another translation of the German word "Kreuze".

Udo Wenzel ...

... Klaus-Dieter Wirth, Claudia Brefeld and Rudi Pfaller are our new guests on Haiku from German Tongues. Please feel free and have a look.

2011-10-04T08:14:00.000-07:00

92nd WHA Haiga Contest

when she crushes
lime and ice ... I don't care
how much cachaça

tea time
a great summer drops
from the eaves

The Shiki Monthly Kukai, 9.2011

supper-time
under the mud
a big grin

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #28

Heike Gewi ...

... is our new guest on Haiku from German Tongues. She was born in Saxony-Anhalt and lives in Aden (Republic of Yemen) now.

2011-09-16T01:08:00.000-07:00

cherry tree park

everything pink

on the front page

2011 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

son's room
just a bit of sand
tells his day

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #27

Gerd Börner ...

... is our new guest on Haiku from German Tongues. He writes short poems and short prose.

2011-08-30T01:20:00.000-07:00

Helga Stania ...

... is our new guest on Haiku from German Tongues. She was born in Germany and lives in Switzerland now.

2011-08-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

this moth
tries to undress her
too

day of departure
his face announces
a high pressure area

Shiki Monthly, July 2011

baroque garden
an artist plants
rice

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #26

2011-08-14T16:32:00.000-07:00

Volker Friebel on "Haiku from German Tongues"

Dear friends,

Volker Friebel is third guest on "Haiku from German Tongues". Feel free to read his fine haiku.

http://haikufromgermantongues.blogspot.com/ presents haiku in English from authors, who come from a German speaking origin. Selected entries will be published every two weeks.

2011-08-01T05:43:00.001-07:00

Ramona Linke on "Haiku from German Tongues"

Dear friends,

our second guest on "Haiku from German Tongues" is Ramona Linke. http://haikufromgermantongues.blogspot.com/ presents haiku in English from authors, who come from a German speaking origin. Selected entries will be published here every two weeks.

By the way: We have started "haiku-like" on Facebook as an open group. If you know other haiku-activities in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Xing and so on, feel free to inform me. I would like to have and share an overview about haiku-activities in social networks.

Best wishes
Ralf Bröker

2011-07-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

Audio-Sequence at Haikuscope

I am pleased to announce an audio-sequence at Haikuscope, an internet-project by Hubertus Thum, Gerd Börner and Michael Dehnhoff. Interested readers may have a look at this page and listen to five haiku, presented in German. Here you find the English translation:

Parents' Day –
the shrieking
of the chalk

Christmas in downtown.
God knows

I don't want to be an angel.

(referring to Rammstein: Engel)

Parents' tears.
Didn't snow fall
yesterday?

blue sky –
this cloud
is mine

fireside chat –
this pebble stone
I let it skip

(Haiku have been published in Fotohaiku, Haiku heute and Chrysanthemum.)

2011-07-19T02:20:00.000-07:00

Online now: Haiku from German Tongues

Dear friends, I would like you to have look at "Haiku from German Tongues".The idea concerning this new blog:

Many authors write haiku in German, some of them publish world wide. But there seems to be no place to get an overview of this community in English. This is why "Haiku from German Tongues" would like to present haiku in English from authors, who come from a German speaking origin.

To show the width of haiku from German tongues to an international audience, Heike Stehr and I ask haijin to send three haiku in English, a short biography and a link to their homepage, blog or haiku-organization. If selected haiku have been published before, we would be pleased to set up a link to the primary publication.

Selected entries will be published here every two weeks. First guest to be presented is Dietmar Tauchner.

2011-07-08T06:43:00.000-07:00

Steam
rises from the cyclists
in the rain

Asahi, June 17th 2011

strawberry scent
she searches
his tuxedo

midget's night
the white ribbon tells us
adventures

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #25 and #24

2011-07-08T06:39:00.001-07:00

Hi friends,

and thanks a lot for stopping by. At the moment I am changing a lot of things in my life and this is why I am less online than I used to be.

Perhaps you might find it interesting that I am looking forward to start two blogs concerning German haibun (in German) and haiku from German tongues (in English and other languages). These blogs will start this summer. I will tell you here and more as soon as possible.

Best wishes
Ralf

2011-05-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

German TV
from Osaka now—
closing the sumi-e set

Mainichi's Tsunami-Special

2011-05-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

mother's birthday
a-string's vibration

CKK #23

2011-04-04T00:32:00.000-07:00

Stacking firewood
my son wants to know
all about tsunami

Lenten season--
how far is it from here
to Fukushima?

Asahi, 2011/04/01

east wind
in the light of a street lamp
a fox

mother
is calling—
east wind

blue buds
on the boundary ridge
east wind

Sketchbook, Kukai 2011-1/2

first warm day
the candlelight dinner ends
with heartburn

Sketchbook, Haiku Thread 2011-1/2

lifting the cover
she makes me take a smell
jasmine buds

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #22

fresh buckrams
a boy does not want
his mates to come

rear view mirror
again these crows
peck the magpie

The Shiki Monthly, March 2011

2011-03-18T02:19:00.001-07:00

the puppy stops
in the door
snow

almost forgotten
the sound of walking
on snow

Sketchbook 11-12/2010

2011-03-07T10:52:00.000-08:00

a sun shines
through my closed eyes
spring fever

in your eyes
my tears
do not fall

The Shiki Monthly 02/2011

2011-03-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

this folded paper
the blackboard says
Valentine's Day

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #21

2011-02-11T08:24:00.000-08:00

winter sky
the blue
in your eyes

New Year's Eve
a ring
disappears

Shiki Monthly 12/10

2011-02-06T12:02:00.000-08:00

winter clouds
the bus-driver's child
waits for snow

winter clouds
she asks him
to come a bit closer

watching winter clouds
my hair turns grey

Sketchbook Kukai 12/2010

2011-02-05T07:34:00.000-08:00

mother's calendar
the original colour
of the wall

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #20

2010-12-05T15:19:00.000-08:00

roof truss
carpenters brace
a ribboned wreath

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #19

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in February.

2010-11-28T12:38:00.000-08:00

No time
to finish shaving
Canada geese

Carried
by a shuttle through the shed
Mum's present

The Shiki Monthly, 11/10

2010-11-04T02:33:00.001-07:00

autumn wind
a father looks for
his kite

searching his coats
she finds the smell
of autumn wind

dance arbour
nothing but autumn wind

Sketchbook Kukai, 11-2010

city park
the pointeur picks up
a copper beech leaf

Altweibersommer –
the old man
asks for work

listening to Vivaldi
the painter mixes
red and brown

Sketchbook Haiku Thread Karina Klesko, 11-2010

sunny day
the old tree bears the colours
of a children's globe

under this tree
I am a falling leaf
too

the forest
of my hometown
collecting colours

a toddler
under a naked tree
leaves rain down

Sketchbook Haiku Thread John Daleiden, 11-2010

correfoc
lighting her sparkler
not knowing it's her

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #18

2010-10-31T06:26:00.000-07:00

Shiraz
in her glass
Art Deco

Asahi, 10/29/2010

2010-10-21T16:29:00.000-07:00

Urban Set

he leaves the train
she can't finish
the text

sandwichbox
tomato slices
balcony-grown

she types
her daughter's birthday
internetcafé

fifth beer
a national team coach turns
into a dictator

night bus
he knows the man
and pretends to sleep

2010-10-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

lunchtime
an old cat catches
an old leaf

The Shiki Monthly, 9/2010

2010-09-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

new brown bags
along the slip road
lingering heat

Sketchbook 7/8-2010

2010-09-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

the sound of watching
a romantic movie
on autumn's first day

2010-08-23T01:59:00.000-07:00

thunder
under the blanket
I found myself

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #16

2010-08-03T14:28:00.000-07:00

cloudless morning
my little son demands
his own umbrella

Caribbean Kigo Kukai, 8/2010

2010-07-25T08:01:00.000-07:00

morning breeze
in a fallen tree
leaves rustle

morning breeze—
she sorts
his hair

Sketchbook, 5/6-2010

some trunks
take pictures
of my son's sand castle

Sketchbook, 5/6-2010

2010-07-16T16:38:00.000-07:00

Final whistle
my face is covered
with inverted flags

Asahi, July 16th 2010

2010-07-11T08:07:00.000-07:00

morning breeze—
the backlights
of her car

Sketchbook, 5/6-2010

2010-07-09T13:15:00.000-07:00

sweat around my belly
I wish I was pretty
just to please her

chalk creates worlds
one is the lookout

The Shiki Monthly, 6/2010

2010-06-23T00:52:00.000-07:00

Father's birthday
I pick up Mum
for mass

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #14

2010-06-18T16:11:00.000-07:00

Father's Day
my son asks
if I am proud

Asahi, 2010/6/18

2010-06-17T15:39:00.000-07:00

Two old anglers.
Wait. Release. Wait.
A boat goes by

clash
the moment
she smiles

The Shiki Monthly, 2010/5

2010-06-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

Pentecost feast
granny's pepper salad
tastes of glass

Asahi, 4th of June 2010

2010-05-21T16:44:00.000-07:00

graduation ball
the carnations I bought
roses now

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #13

2010-05-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

the puppy sniffs
at a piece of pizzle
and whines

how long
this wave
travels

The Shiki Monthly, 2010/4

2010-05-09T10:03:00.000-07:00

Spring
raindrops freezing
again

Spring rain Kukai, sketchbook 2010/05

After That

2010-05-06T02:21:00.000-07:00

There are five of us in London: an aquainted couple, my children, and I drifting down the shopping streets on this unusually sunny, well, hot October morning. Though papers tell about the economic crisis, people are hastening between department stores and cafés, in this and that direction, packed with plastic bags. Again and again I am running into them, smelling expensive perfume, apologizing on and on, yet in the end I stop doing so. 'Cause nobody speaks a word on these boulevards.

Gosh, this bus is the one we wanted to ride on! An old bus, one of these with an open platform! One, you can jump on!

I jump on ...

"Are you out of your tiny little mind?" my friend barks at me. Apart from this I had left everybody in the dust for nobody had been able to follow me in this hustle. Nor his wife, neither my daughter. And whether I had'nt thought of my son, who might not have anything else to do but jump after his father. Thank God the boy had been too slow, and they could hold him back. I should have seen how appalled the kid was while looking at me. And they could only catch up with me because the next bus stop was only a hundred metres away, and the bus had to wait there anyway.

"Excuse me", I say. And after a while: "I don't know, what's got into me."

here I was born
here my father died
now I've cut the umbilical cord

Chrysanthemum, April 2010

2010-04-28T04:34:00.000-07:00

stormy day
the flying line ends in
mother's comfort

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #12

2010-04-16T17:34:00.000-07:00

Fly
in the bottle.
What color has the sky?

Chrysanthemum, April 2010

2010-04-13T11:01:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,

again a little break in this blog, for I am going to start a new project called Kukai 2010. It is a kigo kukai asking for haiku in German. I don't know anything about chances or necessities, but hopefully some people like it.

On this point I think that The Shiki Monthly, Sketchbook und The Caribbean Kigo Kukai are the high level standard. Kukai 2010 might come a bit closer to them one day.

Thanks for your patience and constancy.

Best wishes

Ralf

2010-03-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

her freckles
this morning
crossed by easter fire's ashes

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #11

shortbread
my taste buds
listen to bagpipes

my mum weeds
in my new patch

The Shiki Monthly, 2010/03

anniversary
my shadow seems to fall
in her's

morning of the final
mother folds
his lucky socks

The Shiki Monthly, 2010/02

2010-03-27T17:27:00.000-07:00

Starving
on a field
of fuel

Lunch time--
I eat
or feast?

Sleeplessness
in his words
bears an idea

Albatros 12/13

2010-03-02T01:27:00.000-08:00

breakfast in bed
we kiss away
the crunchy crumbs

Sketchbook, February 2010

2010-02-20T15:59:00.000-08:00

St. Thomas' Day
the midget makes a beeline
for the man in red

Sketchbook Dec. 2009

2010-02-12T17:08:00.000-08:00

After hours of searching and trying I found a first path to a solution: it is my Kaspersky Security System, which stops some java-scripts in some blogs. I am looking forward to start commenting in the next days. Thank you for coming by.

2010-02-06T13:05:00.000-08:00

longest night
a glove without fingers
freezes on a fence post

Sketchbook 4-6 2009

2010-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

The 73rd. WHA Haiga Contest (01/2010)

Haiku-Art, Ramona Linke (03/2010)

2010-01-15T17:11:00.000-08:00

Snowflake in my hand
if I was dead
it would stay

Asahi Haikuist Network

2010-01-06T02:22:00.000-08:00

mist--
the sound of a fast car
becomes light

Mainichi, 2010, 6th of January

2010-01-01T05:56:00.000-08:00

In the zoo
a young polar bear
fears the ice

Early morning
black coffee
and a pill

Shiki Monthly 12/09: "Wintering Animals" and "Breakfast"

2009-12-24T06:50:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve
last year's lunch is
today's dinner

Whereever you are: Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

2009-12-19T02:31:00.000-08:00

Throwing clay--
at the local museum
schnapps in glasses

Asahi Haikuist Network December 2009

2009-12-17T12:33:00.000-08:00

Early in November.
Father's stone
reflects

Haiku heute, December 2009

2009-12-07T16:49:00.000-08:00

Haiku first published in The Mainichi Daily News

2009-11-28T05:17:00.000-08:00

stormy autumn night
he cuts an onion in two
against her earache


first almond biscuit ...
she stores away
a plastic pumpkin

The Shiki Monthly Kukai November 2009

2009-11-21T03:05:00.000-08:00

harvest moon
glowing cheeks
in front of the screen

warm day
this leaf
its way down

children in anoraks
asking for
red leaves

these glasses
in these dewdrops
on these leaves

Sketchbook September/October 2009,
kukai-result and the editor's choices (Karina and John)

2009-11-12T16:21:00.000-08:00

rainy road
my homebrew
bitter

2009-11-03T06:36:00.000-08:00

amidst this heartburn
the sound of my fax

Please join Alan Summer's
1.000-Renga-Project!

2009-10-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

Weekend arrangement--
blowing out
candle lights

caribbean kigo kukai #8

2009-10-23T15:58:00.000-07:00

Harvest time.
The winegrower checks
the clause

Erntezeit.
Der Winzer prüft
die Paragrafen

Haiku heute October 2009

2009-10-17T04:51:00.000-07:00

The Portrait

I am too late. I would like to jolt traffic jam and annoyance out of my coat and to excuse myself. My host passes a hanger to me: "My mistake– I should not arrange appointments for Monday mornings."

In his office I give myself a breathing space with the story of a Native American who went by train for the first time in his life: "My body is already here. My soul, however, isn't yet." My host nods. He starts telling me.

He speaks quietly. It is about the latest news, local events, and people's expectations. Looking over his shoulder I recognise the Dalai Lama's portrait on a desk.

"My colleague has the same picture", I say. My host waits until I look in his eyes again: "Well, I am a practising Buddhist."

We smile. The sound of an indoor fountain.

Chrysanthemum #6

2009-10-15T02:05:00.000-07:00

Blue sky--
this cloud
is mine

Chrysanthemum #6

2009-10-09T13:00:00.000-07:00

Internet-ticketing–
I buy myself
a piece of London

2009-10-02T08:56:00.000-07:00

Autumn half term–
catching the fog
with a butterfly net

French class–
her pencil lost
in Paris

The Shiki Monthly Kukai

2009-09-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

WHA, 70th Haiga Contest

2009-09-27T04:23:00.000-07:00

picket line the honeydew of a cicada

Cicada Kukai Sketchbook

2009-09-21T23:42:00.000-07:00

Flood-meadow--
can't even hear
the main artery

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #7

2009-09-15T11:13:00.000-07:00

Haiku-Treffen in NRW

Am Samstag, 26. September 2009, ab 11 Uhr in Schermbeck (Kreis Wesel). Oberthema: Tee. Haiku dazu werden vorgestellt und besprochen. Es soll einen Haiku-Spaziergang geben, vielleicht auch einen Vortrag. Veranstaltet wird das Treffen von Heike Stehr (Moers) und Ralf Bröker (Ochtrup).

E-Mail: kunstlebendigXweb.de (das X bitte durch ein @ ersetzen)

Haiku Meeting in North Rhine-Westphalia

Saturday, September 26th, 11 a.m. at Schermbeck (Wesel district). Principal theme: tea. Haiku concerning to that will be presented and discussed; a haiku walk and a lecture might be added to the agenda. Hosts: Heike Stehr (Moers) and Ralf Bröker (Ochtrup).

Contact: kunstlebendigXweb.de (please replace X by @)

2009-09-08T05:45:00.000-07:00

eastmoon's orange
in the silver linden
rustling of rye

2009-09-01T09:29:00.001-07:00

Corn harvest--
what does the tractor driver
listen to?

The Shiki Monthly Kukai August

2009-08-23T16:44:00.000-07:00

Fireworks--
her eyes tell them
from long ago

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #6

2009-08-21T06:10:00.000-07:00

Strawberry breakfast--
calling in sick
at work

Asahi Haikuist Network, August 21th, 2009

2009-08-16T15:18:00.000-07:00

kneeling where
granduncle used to say Mass--
Papa, Vater ...

2009-08-12T09:09:00.000-07:00

Hot salsa –
my daughter cries
for the moon

2009-08-06T11:59:00.000-07:00

against the north wind–
so many questions
on board

The Shiki Monthly Kukai (July 2009)

2009-08-02T16:21:00.001-07:00

father's garden mould works in my hand

The Shiki Monthly Kukai (July 2009)

2009-08-02T15:43:00.001-07:00

On David Searjeant's blog "Distant Lightning" I found a link to Alan Summers' important-word-project. Have a look at it here: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Alan_S

Well done, Alan! Thanks a lot, Dave.

And yes: Serendipity!

2009-07-31T00:47:00.000-07:00

Drawing a bath--
she pours the whole sea
around her castle

Asahi Haikuist Network July 31th, 2009

2009-07-29T00:15:00.000-07:00

Poplar boulevard–
listening
to the sea
in me

2009-07-28T04:06:00.000-07:00

In the high grass–
cast shadow
tells me the time

2009-07-24T04:19:00.000-07:00

summer vacation--
telling the children gently
why we stay at home

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #5

2009-07-19T02:36:00.000-07:00

blue summer day--
the dog chews
a juicy bone

very accurate
a towel under his chin

2009-07-14T09:50:00.000-07:00

Tax return--
on a slip of paper
her perfume

Steuererklärung--
an einem Beleg
ihr Parfum

Haiku heute, Juni 2009

2009-07-11T07:31:00.000-07:00

Cold summer day--
having the munchies for
Malaga ice-cream

2009-07-10T02:44:00.001-07:00

A drop of my sweat
falls into a puddle--
me again

2009-07-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

Summerday--
in the ditch the dog
squats and drinks

2009-07-03T16:21:00.000-07:00

This is not the day
to think about haiku.
This is the time
to think about
a yellow leaf
which falls and falls.

This is not the day
to think about haiku.
This is the time
to think about
the tree
and its branches.

May day and night come
may you leave or stay.
I am a leaf
which is green
which will be yellow
once.

Once in my life
is now in yours.

I would like to be strong
but my tears are running.

Water to dry plant.
Salt to slack meal.
Now I know
there is a way to you.
And I feel your warm welcome.

It bursts out.
It is the whole inside of me.

It is
me:

a yellow leaf
it is difficult to fall
there

Haiku-wortART-Forum

2009-07-02T09:41:00.000-07:00

Corpus Christi –
neighbours bedight their altar
close to the café

Caribbean Kigo Kukai #4

2009-06-30T23:48:00.000-07:00

Cancer--
her last dance
in a new balance

A tribute to Pina Bausch
(thanks for the link, haikushelf)

2009-06-30T07:11:00.001-07:00

Packed road--
the pit stain in the convertible
waves me through

2009-06-27T09:38:00.000-07:00

Graduation Day—
mother picks off
a dandelion parachute

The Shiki Monthly Kukai (June 2009)