Mariangela Canzi and Ian Storr lending Presence into the MahMight Zone

bloody sunday

migrants work

in burning fields

Mariangela Canzi 

Mariangela Canzi said:

"I would like to send you my most recent haiku. I wrote it in one go last Sunday after hearing terrible news on tv.

Last Sunday breaking news: An African migrant died of a heart attack in southern Italy. He had been forced to work in the fields at noon. Fatigue and heat killed him.

I felt deeply shocked and irate. Words suddenly flowed into my mind and I wrote this haiku."

traffic lights at red

a man with no fingers

asks for money

Ian Storr

Mariangela Canzi says:

"Ian Storr's haiku profoundly struck me. I think a discreet yet powerful emotion seizes the reader and leads him to think about our life and our challenging world. A challenge we have to take up."

Here is Mariangela's quotation from 

'Waiting for Godot'...

Vladimir: 

"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet."

And from 'Withnail and I'...

Withnail:

"These are the sort of windows faces look in at?"

Alan Note:

Ian Storr's incredible haiku comes from this sequence:

Blue Lotuses - Ian Storr

https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/bluelotuses-ianstorr

Ian Storr also helps make this amazing journal come alive 

with his fellow editors:

Presence

Britain's leading independent haiku journal

web links: 

https://haikupresence.org

https://haikupresence.org/submit/

And all fine poetry journals need a bit of extra loving:

https://haikupresence.org/subscribe/

MahMight becomes poignant with Lorraine Padden and Chad Lee Robinson

 

precious little sleep the tiny headstone

Lorraine Padden

Commentary:

"I’m fascinated by the various arrangements of words that make up small haiku-informed poems! How individual bits of meaning lead, follow, shift and co-mingle in a single stroke or across multiple gestures."

Lorraine:

And, here's a favorite haiku by Chad Lee Robinson, The Heron's Nest 2020 Poet of the Year:

stillborn lamb

the storm reduces itself

to quiet rain

Chad Lee Robinson

Lorraine's Commentary: 

"This moment is full to overflowing with the juxtaposition of ferocious and tender energies. A force of nature whose furious self-confidence yields space and time for a reverential bearing witness to loss."

A favorite quote from Waiting for Godot:

"Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression that we exist?"

A favorite quote from Withnail and I:

"Withnail: This is ridiculous"

Alan note:

Check out the latest tweets from 

Lorraine A Padden:

https://twitter.com/LorraineAPadden

Chad Lee Robinson

stillborn lamb

the storm reduces itself

to quiet rain

Chad Lee Robinson

Pierre, South Dakota

The Heron's Nest

Volume XXII, Number 3: September 2020

Editors' Choices

The Heron's Nest Award commentary

Jeff Hoagland Commentary:

https://www.theheronsnest.com/September2020/editors-choices.html

Enjoy Chad Lee Robinson's other haiku in this journal:

https://www.theheronsnest.com/September2020/haiku-p6.html

Interview with Chad Lee Robinson, 

Prizewinning author   

of The Deep End of the Sky

https://www.turtlelightpress.com/2015/09/chad-lee-robinson-on-haiku/

About: Chad Lee Robinson:

https://dakotaku.wordpress.com/about/

And his books including eBooks you can enjoy right now!

https://dakotaku.wordpress.com/haiku-collections/

Last person standing in the MahMight zone with Linda L Ludwig and Kris Lindbeck

 

she stood

through it all...

she stood

Linda L Ludwig

"Life leaves marks upon the soul that heal but leave scars.  As years pass we face new challenges that knock us down but every time we get up we are that much stronger.  She is older, wiser and stronger through a year that tested everyone’s strength."

The following is my new favorite haiku by Kris Lindbeck.  

I love this because growing up and still the thought of flying was a part of my dreams and as an older person with white hair I identified.  I want to learn to fly.

photograph©Alan Summers

Withnail and I: 

You wouldn't spike me, you're too mean. Beside there's nothing invented I couldn't take.

Waiting for Godot:

“Vladimir: I don't understand. 

Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? 

Vladimir uses his intelligence.  

Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.” 

Alan note:

To keep up to date with Kris Lindbeck’s tweets:

https://twitter.com/KrisLindbeck