MahMight haiku journal: kigo competition

day moon…
she feels for an eye
with her fingers

Alan Peat

Alan Peat says:

"This poem is about my grandmother. She continued to sew as her eyesight faded, eventually leaving her blind. I guess it’s also informed by surrealism. I co-wrote the catalogue raisonné of the surrealist artist John Tunnard (1997) and this interest in twentieth century art often spills over into my writing."

See:

JOHN TUNNARD

1900 1971

https://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/john-tunnard

Alan Peat's favourite haiku by another writer:

February silence —
an old woman knits her sunset

Réka Nyitrai

Published:

otata 39 March, 2019 ed. John Martone
page 93
https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/otata-39-may-2019-final2.pdf

Alan says:

"I’ve chosen this beautifully evocative poem by Réka Nyitrai. It’s one, among many, of Réka’s poems that I often re-read.

I love poems that create a vivid, resonating image. I see my grandmother in Réka’s poem too - it speaks to me directly and leaves enough space for me to personalise the words.

A great haiku is one which the reader can inhabit - this ku, in my opinion, achieves that distinction."

‘Withnail and I’ quote:
You bloody fool. You should never mix your drinks.

‘Waiting for Godot’ quote:

Let us make the most of it before it is too late.

NOTES:

Alan Peat lives in Biddulph, Staffordshire, United Kingdom:
https://biddulph.co.uk

The history of signs:

https://biddulph.co.uk/village-signs/

Alan Peat is a U.K.-based poet, author, and Fellow of both The Royal Society of Arts & The Historical Association.

He is an Independent Literacy Consultant and his unique INSET, conference and school-based training provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective and enjoyable strategies for raising pupils' achievement in both reading and writing.

Alan is the author of a number of books on a wide range of subjects including education, art and ceramics.

The Magic Stone is his first story for children:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0957079648/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6

Réka Nyitrai

About:

While Dreaming Your Dreams

by Réka Nyitrai

I appreciate these haiku that can go beyond the present moment: Everything is ongoing, it’s simultaneously past, present, and future.

Sometimes we need to turn to surrealism as a way to embrace uncomfortable truths.

Alan Summers

founder, Call of the Page

while dreaming your dreams/mientras sueño tus sueños

Réka Nyitrai was the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2020 for her volume While Dreaming Your Dreams (Valencia Spain: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020).

Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Winner 2020
https://thehaikufoundation.org/reka-nyitrai-touchstone-distinguished-books-award-winner-2020/

https://www.amazon.com/WHILE-DREAMING-YOUR-DREAMS-NYITRAI/dp/8409207265/ref=pd_sim_4/140-5621688-2808103?pd_rd_w=rqka7&pf_rd_p=cf667c36-5137-43ea-a503-3c58067bc8ac&pf_rd_r=NB7WNXH51DDHN5FZKH2C&pd_rd_r=86cc786b-2363-4db0-b214-03cf71dd8566&pd_rd_wg=nUTms&pd_rd_i=8409207265&psc=1

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