National Poetry Month: Guest Post #8, Pamela Cooper . . .

Today’s guest poet is Montreal native Pamela Cooper.  Pamela is the Canadian division winner of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational Contest 2011 for the following beautiful haiku:

 hanami picnic
more blossoms
than sky 

Here’s what Pamela has to say about why she writes haiku, followed by three more of her lovely poems:

“I have always had an appreciation for nature, and for the seasons, each with its own set of defining characteristics.  So, when I discovered haiku, this very tangible form of poetry, which celebrates the world around us, I was drawn to it immediately.  Although I had learned about haiku, briefly, in high school, it was not until reading about it in a local magazine, and subsequently attending haiku meetings, that I began to write haiku.  This was about a decade ago, but my enthusiasm for this Japanese short poem has not waned.  Here are a few of my haiku, little snippets of the world around me, as observed or experienced, while I interact with it . . . “

—Pamela Cooper

a woodpecker
chips at the birch bark–
falling snow

evening shadows–
the monarch bends
a ray of sunlight

autumn graveyard–
leaves uniting
with their shadows

[Sponsored by Couplets–the brainchild of Joanne Merriam of Upper Rubber Boot Books–this exchange is just one of many going on during this month-long celebration.]

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