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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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A new post, and a new haiku, on my blog about new season .

new season royal gala –
just for a moment 
 I’m young again

@freehaiku

hookturn.blog/2023/04/02/new-s

#royalgala #apples #freehaiku #autumnhaiku #australianhaiku #melbourne #naarm

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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A blog post and a haiku about going for a walk with our cavoodle Barney:

autumn walk, just
following our cavoodle
everywhere

hookturn.blog/2023/03/11/autum

@freehaiku

#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #melbourne #naarm #cavoodle #doghaiku #autumnhaiku #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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#haiku #australianhaiku #melbournehaiku #naarm #melbourne #freehaiku #autumn #southernhemisphere #autumnhaiku #planetree #londonplanetree

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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John Bird Dreaming Award
(Australian haiku award)

Reminder: submissions for the 2nd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku close on the 1st March 2023.

Shares / boots / retoots are appreciated to ensure maximum visibility to Australian poets and haiku writers.

For full details, including how to submit, refer to the original notification here: australianhaikusociety.org/202

@freehaiku

#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #johnbird #haikuoz #dreamingaward

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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wrought-iron lace
on the terrace house row
- clouded moon

~ Leanne Mumford

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#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #leannemumford #wroughtiron #moonhaiku #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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dead thistles
the feel of a key
in a rusty lock
~ Ron Moss

Originally published in The Heron's Nest, XV.2 (06-13).

@freehaiku

#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #thistle #heronsnest #ronmoss #iwishidwrittenthat #favouritehaiku #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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inner city rain
the neon girl
still skipping
~ Jennifer Sutherland

This haiku may not mean much for people who haven’t lived in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), but for those that have the neon Skipping Girl Vinegar advertising sign is a familiar sight and one of the iconic symbols of the city.

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#haiku #freehaiku #naarm #australianhaiku #melbourne #melbournehaiku #jennifersutherland #skippinggirl #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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mountain ash forest
a wilting bunch of jonquils
tied to a road sign

~ Louise Hopewell

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#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #louisehopewell #mountainash #treehaiku #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #fireworks #fireworkshaiku #lorikeets #newyearseve #newyearsday #karendooley

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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I read @KarenWyld saying that there are unusually high number of dragonflies in South Australia and Victoria this summer

& I was reminded of this brief post (2min read) that I wrote about dragonflies a year or so ago:

clembyard.com/2021/07/19/the-d

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#haiku #australianhaiku #freehaiku #dragonfly #dragonflyhaiku #haibun #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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Christmas morning
the cricket ground is white –
kikuyu grass

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#haiku #freehaiku #xmas #xmashaiku #crickethaiku #kikuyu #clembyard #aiart #craiyon #australianhaiku

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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#haiku #freehaiku #australianhaiku #poetry #australianpoetry #lynreeves #echidna #echidnahaiku

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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rainbow black
Christmas beetles
missing this year
~ Jahan Tyson
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#haiku #freehaiku #australianhaiku #jahantyson #xmashaiku #christmasbeetle #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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#haiku #freehaiku #australianhaiku #haikuoz #poetry #rosevanson #magpielark #mudlark #peewit #peewee #aiart #craiyon

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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rainforest pool
glints of gold
in the orb spider's web
~Lyn Reeves


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#lynreeves #haiku #freehaiku #australianhaiku #aiart #craiyon #orbweaver #spider #spiderhaiku

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
782 followers · 250 posts · Server aus.social

Slightly more solid
than the twilight, kangaroos
crossing the firebreak.
~ Andrew Lansdown

This is one of my favourite Australian haiku.
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A month or so ago I gave a talk at the online conference about Australian images in haiku poetry, and to illustrate the talk I created some images using the image generator.
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I used the prompt “-e” (Japanese ink painting) and the names of Australian plants and animals to create a series of Japanese style images of Australian subjects.
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Andrew’s haiku was published in the .

#haikudownunder #craiyon #aiart #sumi #firstaustralianhaikuanthology #haiku #freehaiku #australianhaiku #poetry #australianpoetry #kangaroos

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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Here is a link to another * I wrote
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It is about a short bushwalk I took in an area of forest at a place call , about an hour drive west of (, Australia), back in August 2020
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* A haibun could be thought of as a short personal essay that includes a
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clembyard.com/2020/08/23/eynes

#haibun #greybox #eynesbury #naarm #melbourne #haiku #australianhaiku #australianpoetry #thebush #snakes #boxwood #bushwalking

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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Reminder!
(Last days)
Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology – Call for Submissions
Deadline: 1st December 2022
(Please share!)
Further details: australianhaikusociety.org/202

#haiku #australianhaiku #haikuoz #australianpoetry #auspoetry

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
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I like to write “haibun”, a Japanese literary form that usually includes a haiku poem with a very short personal essay in prose.

If you’re interested to read an example here is one I wrote in October last year, about :

clembyard.com/2021/10/08/frogm

#TawnyFrogmouth #haiku #haibun #australianhaiku #poetry #australianpoetry #birds #australianbirds #urbanbirds #notanowl #strangebirdsindeed #haikuoz

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Clem Byard · @CactusHaiku
685 followers · 183 posts · Server aus.social

Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology – Call for Submissions

The Australian Haiku Society is excited to announce a call for submissions for the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (4AHA) that will showcase the work of poets who are writing haiku in this country today.

Submissions are welcomed by poets who are Australian by nationality or who currently reside here. There are no constraints with respect to form or the inclusion of seasonal references; both haiku and senryu are welcomed and may be published or unpublished.

Submit up to five of your best haiku and/or senryu.

The deadline for submissions is 1st December 2022.

More info on how to submit here: australianhaikusociety.org/202

(Please boost so writers of will see and submit)

#australianhaiku #australianpoetry #haikuoz #haiku #auswrites

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