Poem in Your Pocket Day is coming–April 26–and I’m asking readers to send their favorite haiku (no more than 3 please) to me by Tuesday, April 24, for my Thursday post. The idea is to share a poem with others as part of National Poetry Month. The haiku can be yours or someone else’s. To get in the spirit, you can visit The Haiku Foundation’s digital archive of poetry, where you’ll find an assortment of contemporary haiku anthologies ready to download; or check out Poemhunter.com or Haikupoetshut.com for haiku by Basho and other Japanese masters.
Let me know if you have a favorite haiku, and I’ll try to post it. Here’s a favorite of mine to get you started:
Among these graffiti is the name of someone I love
–Matsuo Basho, trans., Hiroaki Sato
About Margaret Dornaus
I’m a writer and a teacher, as well as a haiku-doodler. I live in a beautiful woodland setting, surrounded by native oak forests, that inspires me to record haiku snapshots of luna moths and our resident roadrunner, and even an occasional black bear as it hightails it across the top of my road, my mongrel dog barking at its heels as I watch with wonder.
My work as a travel writer has appeared in publications from The Dallas Morning News to the Robb Report. You can find examples of my travel writing–as well as excerpts from a travel memoir I’m working on–at my other WordPress site, Travelin’ On.
What more than that do you need to know? Only that I started this blog with an eye toward collaboration. Got a haiku? Send it my way. . . . I’m all about new visions & voices.
Best, Margaret
Haiku-doodle 
Earth Day
my new-blue sweater
from the thrift store
thank you!
Thanks, Ellen. An appropriate ku for my blustery Earth Day.
Dear Margaret, So kind of you to include me. I am just beginning to participate in blog events like yours, and it’s a new learning curve! Thanks again, Ellen
You’re so welcome, Ellen. Thank you for participating.
great idea, margaret!
I’ve sent you my favorites — please let me know if they don’t get through.
🙂
Thanks, Angie. Got them this morning!
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Here are 3 favorites of mine:
Thank you, Yousei . . . I’ve taken your favorites to put in my post!
My favorites in the order of how they affect me: Issa from a philosophical depth, Shiki on my senses, Basho of my senses calmed to rest on an illumined sky. Thanks for this great opportunity to really think of favorites and why, mi hermana!
Gracias, hermana . . . I’ve taken your choices off of here and put them into the post.
Margaret, am I too late?
Not too late at all, Johnny. Thanks for the contributions!
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