Poetry Corner: Looking Through Haiku Windows

POETRY CORNER

Haiku discussion group (Photo – kjmunro).

– 6/20/18

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

For many weeks, ​​kjmunro has been curating Haiku Windows. You can read them all in this archive. Its a special feature for the Haiku Foundation. Knowing the work and dedication this entails, and the pleasure it has given to so many,​ including me, over the first half of 2018, ​I invited her to share a sampling of her own ​Haiku Windows! kjmunro has published a few of her haiku windows elsewhere, but since she ​did not include​ her own​ haiku​ in the project, most of these are appearing for the first time here on our Poetry Corner​.​​

~ Kathabela​​

Waxwings through the window Looking in (Photo – kjmunro).

​kjmunro

snow brushes a window
the cat
rubs against my leg

subway window
I look myself
in the eye

venetian blinds a slice of life

rain runs down the window
she cracks another egg
on my head

dollhouse window
all I can see
is her eye

Cat tracks (Photo – kjmunro).

missing cat
the sun through a window
warms me

summer evening
through the open window
birdsong

the stained glass
of the church
lit from within

vacation home –
rain tapping on the skylight
in every room​

Takhini Hot Springs Road in spring (Photo – kjmunro).

KJ says: “Over the first half of 2018, we have looked at (& through) 25 different windows for this feature – from the kitchen to a train, a dollhouse, a spaceship, an outhouse & even a broken window – the response has been overwhelming, & the most rewarding part for me is the thought that new work is being created as a result of this project. For the second half of the year the column will take off in a new direction where we explore specific locations with an emphasis on the senses.​”

Katherine J. Munro publishes under the name kjmunro. Originally from Vancouver, BC, Canada, she moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. She is active in the local organization Yukon Writers’ Collective Ink, & in 2014 founded ‘solstice haiku’, a monthly haiku discussion group that she continues to facilitate. She is Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada & an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets. She currently compiles a weekly blog post called ‘Haiku Windows’ for The Haiku Foundation.

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Looking in (Photo – kjmunro).

Thank you for your inspiration, kj​, from haiku poets worldwide.

​~ Amy Losak, Teaneck, New Jersey:
Thank you, kj, for the opportunity to see and sense worlds in new ways through haiku windows.

~ D​eborah P Kolodji,Temple City, California:
sun through clouds each new poem a window
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~ Madhuri Pillai, Melbourne, Australia:
seeing through her eyes the wonder of windows

~ Marta Majorka Chociłowska​, Warsaw, Poland:
A haiku – an open window to the boundlessness

~ Michael H. Lester​,​ Los Angeles​, California​:
the flying poet – running out of windows

~ Olivier Schopfer, Geneva, Switzerland:
​moments beyond the frame haiku windows

~ Peter Jastermsky​, Irvine, California​:
​t​his week’s window opening new haiku eyes

~ Sandi Pray​, Robbinsville, North Carolina:
fireflies from my window the universe

~ ​Susan Rogers, Los Angeles, California:
​laughing out loud driving thinking about windows now I have almost a hundred windows​

~ Terri Hale French​, ​Hunt​s​ville Alabama:
I left my noseprint on the haiku window

~ Tia Haynes​,​ Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio:
haiku windows where I watch the bees dance

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Yukon sunset through the window (Photo – kjmunro).

♣ Above is a small sampling of new Haiku Windows. Hundreds of haiku poets were included by kj in this project! P​lease add your own new Haiku Windows to our comment box below as a thank you to kjmunro​.

>Thank you to the Haiku Foundation for Haiku Windows!