gun metal clouds and deep woods: Claire Vogel Camargo and Rachel Sutcliffe

deep wood and clouds

 

 

 

 

the tailgater 

gesticulating 

gun metal clouds 

 

Claire Vogel Camargo

 

 

 

Claire says:

"Driving in heavy traffic one cloudy afternoon, amidst laid-on car horns, screeching tires, and cars cutting in front, this haiku was born. Road rage incidents are increasing. A guy even followed me off the freeway years ago. The fright of another honking, tailgating, menacing guy remains with me." 

 

 

 

 

 Claire's choice of a favourite haiku is by Rachel Sutcliffe:

 

 

deep woods happy to just be 

 

 

 

Rachel Sutcliffe 

 Per Diem, The Haiku Foundation, October 2018 

 

 

 

photo:

https://twitter.com/FreshoutMag/status/1084509602434203648/photo/1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claire says:

"Rachel Sutcliffe’s poetry can be wrenching. Having died much too early, suffering debilitating illness, Rachel wrote with an exquisiteness of expression; in a way that touched the raw ends and receptors in my mind, heart, and soul. Her poems bring me right into her pain, illness experiences, and feelings about life. Her monoku I chose to share stood out to me. In it, I can feel her sustaining and last gratitude maybe, but I also feel a message of positivity for the living." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Waiting for Godot”:  

Vladimir:  “Extraordinary the tricks that memory plays.” 

 

 

 

 “Withnail and I” 

I:  “Get out of it for awhile. Get into the countryside. Rejuvenate.” 

 

 

 

 

NOTES:

 

 

the soft brush

of our hands folding sheets

cherry blossoms

 

Claire Vogel Camargo

Masters of Japanese Prints: Haiku (Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)

https://exhibitions.bristolmuseums.org.uk/japanese-prints/haikus/

 

More about the live and online events:

https://www.callofthepage.org/events/haiku-at-bristol-museum/

 

 

 

adoption

re-coloring

a future

 

Claire Vogel Camargo

HAIKU DIALOGUE – ink ed. kjmunro (July 2019)

 

“Adoption or fostering is a gift to a child bereft of family, and of care and diligence, and love. Wonderful poem.” Alan Summers (adopted)

 

 

 

 

 

just widowed

all she accomplishes

without him

 

Claire Vogel Camargo

International Women’s Haiku Festival: Two Haiku by Claire Vogel Camargo

March 2018

https://jenniferhambrick.com/2018/03/09/international-womens-haiku-festival-two-haiku-by-claire-vogel-camargo/

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel Sutcliffe

(6 November 1977 – 23 January 2019)

https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/livinglegacies/6699-sutcliffe,-rachel.html

 

 

 

Rachel Sutcliffe

Flying Free: A Poetic Response to Illness 

(Misfit Books Press 2018)

free download: 

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/396b91_08d917b2c53747b59c06d71ec277ee71.pdf)

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry Corner: Seeing the World Differently 

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

October 2018

 

Rachel Sutcliffe

“Simple seasonal changes can also be seen at a deeper level as lessons worth learning in life.”

https://coloradoboulevard.net/poetry-corner-seeing-the-world-differently/

 

 

 

Halloween party

the surgeon

takes his skeleton

 

 

Rachel Sutcliffe

https://putitintopoetry.wordpress.com/2021/10/31/rachels-haiku-34/ 

 

 

 

 

 

Half A Rainbow

Haiku Nook: An Anthology

Dedicated to Rachel Sutcliffe (1977-2019)

& Haiku Nook G+

Edited by Jacob Salzer

 

Proceeds will be donated to Leeds Clinical Immunology Research Fund, Leeds Cares at St. James's University Hospital. 

https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/halfarainbowhaiku/rachel-sutcliffe

 

 

 

the lion roars with S.Radhamani with rain on the tiles by Rachel Sutcliffe

 

midnight city throb

the secret of a lion roars

across the window

S.Radhamani

S.Radhamani says:

As opposed to a serene hamlet, the hustle bustle of city, be it an excited crowd from the theatre, or an enthralling mall, or a speedy ambulance that is deafening, or cautioning the passersby, there is sometimes agitation silently passing into the heart of someone, for reasons beyond articulation, this juxtaposition brings out something anew for speculation.

S.Radhamani chooses this atmospheric haiku:

cold rain

darkness trickles

off the tiles

Rachel Sutcliffe

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-zine, 2018 (ed. Raquel Bailey)

http://lyricalpassionpoetry.yolasite.com/japanese-short-form-pg7.php 

S.Radhamani talks about Rachel Sutcliffe's haiku:

Who will not like Rachel Sutcliffe? 

Wintry images of cold rain dripping and permeating darkness, with an impinging effect upon tiles, thereby both with combined effect and efface on tiles. 

The droplets or slow movement perhaps give a facelift to the tiles, change of color too. Contrast with darkness of cold rain showing on tiles with a telling effect, has a  catch and immediacy. 

The poet’s wording effecting room ambience and color all depicted in a running image. I like the image of show and tell that is well depicted.

Quote from Waiting for Godot

 

VLADIMIR: 

It'll pass the time. (Pause.) 

Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour.

Withnail and I scene:

The Bathroom

[I is in the bath shaving.]

I:

     Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off

     the plane. Timechange. You lose, you gain. Makes no difference so long

     as you keep taking the pills. But sooner or later you've got to get

     out because it's crashing then all at once the frozen hours melt out

     through the nervous system and seep out the pores.

[Withnail enters with their lunch from the chippy]

Alan notes:

Rachel Sutcliffe’s now posthumous blog

Rachel Marie Sutcliffe 6.11.77 to 23. 1.19

https://projectwords11.wordpress.com

Marie Sutcliffe, Rachel’s mother continues the memory

https://putitintopoetry.wordpress.com

Half A Rainbow

Haiku Nook: An Anthology

Dedicated to Rachel Sutcliffe (1977-2019)

& Haiku Nook 

ed. Jacob Salzer

https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/halfarainbowhaiku/rachel-sutcliffe

Profits from the book go to Rachel's favourite charity

St. James University Hospital, Leeds Care

https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/halfarainbowhaiku

Angiola Inglese at MahMight station!

 

step away

from the yellow line...

eschscholzia flowers

Angiola Inglese

When I was younger I always had a strange fear when a train arrived, it seemed to me that that the platform’s yellow line attracted me in an almost magnetic way ... and I turn away, without looking. But then I see a field of these California poppies…

Angiola Inglese’s favorite haiku:

snow on snow

all the things

we keep hidden

Rachel Sutcliffe

tinywords,14 June, 2017

I really loved the haiku of this friend who left us so young: her illness did not prevent her from seeing the beautiful side of nature, to which she felt deeply connected. She recognized all the little ephemeral things about her as similar to her… I'm glad to remember her here.

QUOTES:

“Here are the men! They blame the shoe when the fault lies with the foot."

Waiting for Godot 

"This most excellent canopy, the air..."

Withnail and I

Notes from Alan:

Half A Rainbow is an international haiku anthology 

dedicated to Rachel Sutcliffe (1977-2019)

https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/halfarainbowhaiku/rachel-sutcliffe 

Proceeds go to Rachel’s charity which is the Leeds Clinical Immunology Research Fund, Leeds Cares, at St. James's University Hospital. 

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/our-hospitals/st-james-university-hospital/

Rachel’s haiku, perhaps some of us can leave a comment.

https://tinywords.com/2017/06/14/23576/

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOI4d15cOiw

Withnail quotes Hamlet:

https://speakola.com/movie/richard-e-grant-hamlet-withnail-1987 

https://libraryrefugees.livejournal.com/15606.html