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is through sharing haiku and getting together through video chats here are a few pandemic inspired haiku from poets in canada croatia the usa and uk djurdja vukelić rožić empty streets feeling the warmth of spring sun carole macrury lining her new home with stolen tissue momma squirrel grant d savage corona virus the magpies build nests just the same juliet wilson social distancing kites spread out across the sky jacquie pearce the tiny buds i wouldn t have noticed shelter in place deborah p kolodji masked up my glasses fog defog alan s bridges girls night out clinking wine glasses through a computer screen jacquie pearce waiting for the curve to flatten cherry blossoms terry ann carter more pandemic poetry here borders real and imagined guest post by haiku poet carole macrury poetry pandemic haiku an abundance of caution a longer poem by haiku poet michael dylan welch ways to enjoy the cherry blossoms while social distancing virtual community events through the vancouver cherry blossom festival including international haiku contest vancouver cherry blossom festival blog virtual cherry blossom walk around the historic joy kogawa house neighbourhood marpole vancouver with haiku by sally ito posted in cherry blossoms covid 19 haiga haiku poetry poetrypandemic spring blossoms 1 comment borders real and imagined poetry pandemic continued march 17 2020 guest post by haiku poet carole macrury of point roberts washington usa originally shared on facebook march 2 2020 before the sh t hit the fan so to speak carole offers a balanced perspective that encourages us to see moments of light and beauty without ignoring the darker context and the health and safety protocols we all need to follow carole is also a talented photographer whose photos remind us that in these times of anxiety uncertainty and physical isolation nature offers a sense of continuity and solace thanks carole photo by carole macrury covid 19 a deer grazes both sides of the border living in an isolated community such as mine point roberts is located on a small peninsula connected to canada with access to the rest of the usa requiring crossing two borders it s easy to forget the pandemic spreading across the country as we watch eagles building nests the patient herons waiting for a fish and the female deer bringing out their yearlings to graze all things i saw just yesterday all of it brings a sense of hope of light of spring around the corner but of course we know the dark side is never far away while we have one grocery store one postal office we can only rely on one small clinic that lacks a full time doctor and is not open every day otherwise we must cross borders to get to our primary doctors there is no huge infrastructure available in our small community except for community itself and our fire department ready and able to do everything possible with their a class medics yet across the border businesses are already suffering through fear not reality yet no state of emergency has been declared in bc but it has however been declared in washington state with the death toll increasing specifically in one nursing home i straddle both scenarios living on the 49th parallel between us and canada covid 19 the dim sum crowd disappears a large asian population lives just across the border in the lower mainland of vancouver a place i love to visit all the signs in chinese the food opportunities of course offer a culinary delight however even the chinese canadians are avoiding their own markets business is down the only reason fear people need to eat so to not support local business will hurt us all the asian malls too suffering well we can put off buying unnecessary items but what will it do to the store owners then there are the beautiful open markets with their colorful displays of fruits and vegetable such a waste fear is keeping people away as we hunker in our homes remember the homeless living and breathing on the streets the homeless hungry eyes pass by rotting produce yet despite it all life somehow goes on people do their best to get to get to work after all bills won t stop arriving in the mailbox unless the postal workers gets sick our hero s ambulance drivers health workers doctors nurses policeman firemen continue to come to our rescue yet it s hard to live in a cave of one s making to think of our homes as a prison so we venture out with caution a tiny cough the tai chi class moves six feet apart carole macrury note the world health organization accessed the covid 19 outbreak as a pandemic on march 11 2020 after carole s original post check your local health service for the most recent advisory click here for the canadian link as the pandemic continues and more and more people are self isolating or social distancing let s unite through sharing poetry art and acts of kindness and the creative ways people are finding to create inspire and help each other across social distancing i ll share more pandemic prompted haiku in my next post jacquie posted in covid 19 haiku nature poetry poetrypandemic solidarity 1 comment poetry pandemic march 13 2020 first off my heart goes out to everyone adversely affected by the covid 19 pandemic how are you coping with social distancing or self isolation has it prompted any poetry haiku or otherwise as a writer who spends a lot of time working alone at home the health scare hasn t changed my routine a lot but i will go stir crazy if i don t get out of the house for walks and occasionally get together with family and friends i m not sick so i can go out but it s hard to maintain distancing on public transit which means i m either staying home or trying to avoid peak times for crowds plus of course doing a lot of hand washing crowded skytrain a new awareness of shared air update march 18 2020 now staying at home and not using public transit i m also going for more lone walks closer to home enjoying the spring blossoms and bird songs and i just experienced my first video chat meeting today via zoom which was actually kind of fun with the cancelling of upcoming conferences and travel plans i m travelling vicariously through getting back to working on the train haiku anthology after temporary derailment by other work commitments i ll be posting an update later in the spring and should have a book cover image to share soon if you have any pandemic poetry or creative ideas for weathering the corvid 19 precaution period while staying safe and keeping others safe please share posted in covid 19 haiku nature poetry poetrypandemic spring blossoms trains 6 comments call for train haiku march 25 2018 i ve always loved trains the lonely call of a whistle in the night the view of passing landscape from a train seat the rocking rattle of an overnight berth conversations with strangers in the dining car and have been thinking for some time about putting together an anthology of haiku about trains well the project is finally getting on track you are invited to submit haiku tanka rengay and haibun with a train theme including experiences and imagery related to steam trains bullet trains cross country journeys commuter trains freight trains the passing landscape human interaction on trains internal journeys etc please submit up to 20 haiku up to 5 tanka up to 3 rengay up to 3 haibun unpublished and previously published work will be considered please include submissions in the body of the email and provide previous publication credits as well as your name email and postal address please put train anthology submission and your name in the subject line of your email deadline for submissions june 30 2018 submissions now closed info on upcoming book will be posted in spring summer 2020 if you re coming to this blog for the first time and would like more information about who i am i write haiku and other poetry short non fiction and novels for children my website jacquelinepearce ca my haiku tanka and haibun have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies and two of my haiku recently co won the league of canadian poets inaugural haiku contest i also co edited the jade pond a collection of haiku by the vancouver haiku group published earlier this year and i m a co judge for the 2018 vancouver cherry blossom festival haiku invitational you can read something about my family s train legacy here tags haiku trains travel writing posted in books haibun haiku poetry rengay tanka trains 10 comments my year of joy kogawa house and haiku november 26 2017 for me 2017 has been a year connected to joy kogawa house historic joy kogawa house is the childhood home of canadian author joy kogawa who wrote the ground breaking novel obasan a fictional story based on joy s memories of being interned as a child during ww ii along with thousands of other canadians of japanese descent located in the marpole neighbourhood of vancouver the house was built in 1912 13 joy and her family lived there from 1937 until they were interned in 1942 during the war the house was confiscated and sold and joy s family was not able to return to marpole years later however joy lent her support to a community campaign that saved the house from demolition today the house is a space for author residencies literary events as well as remembering the injustices experienced by japanese canadians during the second world war and moving toward healing and reconciliation joy and her brother at the front west side of the house c 1938 i was grateful to be offered a writing residency at the house which was initially planned for february since february is national haiku writing month the shortest month of the year for the shortest form of poetry and haiku is one of my passions i decided to focus on haiku and to partner with the vancouver cherry blossom festival vcbf preparing for the spring blossom celebration and the festival s international haiku contest plans shifted slightly and rather than staying at the house in february i organized a poetry reading and haiku workshop and worked with the vcbf on koinobori scale painting activities in preparation for sakura days japan fair without staying at joy kogawa house which i was able to do since i live in the vancouver area more on these activities in an earlier blog post february poetry reading plus haiku workshop koi scale painting in may i visited the house for a reading and performance of a suitcase full of memories by joy kogawa and soramaru takayama of japanese poets north of 49 and was delighted to meet and briefly chat with joy afterwards in july i was able to live at the house and work on my own writing projects finishing a verse novel for children and co editing an anthology of haiku poetry written by members of the vancouver haiku group i started the month by hosting a book making workshop given by poet and book artist terry ann carter from victoria which brought together many creative people and was an inspiring kick off to my in house residency staying at the house by myself gave me time and space to focus on writing without my usual distractions making a big difference to my writing pattern and productivity i also enjoyed the opportunity to explore and get to know the marpole neighbourhood including its tree lined streets housing mix history and changing local culture and to relax in the peaceful stillness of the backyard where a young joy kogawa once played i returned to the house to live and work at the end of august and also hosted a presentation by my friend and colleague jean pierre antonio a professor at suzuka university in japan who gave us a fascinating account of the life of japanese immigrant masayuki yano through the translation of mr yano s pre ww ii diaries at the end of september my haiku activities at the house concluded with the hosting of an evening of japanese poetic forms from the tokaido road to the world stage with terry ann carter reading from her new book of haibun prose with haiku tokaido red moon press rachel enomoto sharing haiku and kozue uzawa reading tanka and leading participants in a short tanka writing workshop an evening of japanese forms a word vancouver event with thanks to tracey wan for the bottom right photo in early november joy kogawa returned to the house to read from her children s picture book naomi s tree which was a treat for all of us who came out to listen and celebrate the old cherry tree in the laneway behind joy kogawa house the tree now has a plaque encouraging people to seek it out on their neighbourhood walks so now i seem to have come full circle enjoying the house in each season and again looking ahead to early spring when the cherry blossoms will bloom again my workspace while in residence at joy kogawa house looking out at the old cherry tree behind the back fence to close here are a few simple haiku written during my stay no need for an alarm clock early morning crows picking the last ripe raspberry evening robin and from my evening walk past the elementary school young joy kogawa attended 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