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Kirsten Cliff                  

Kirsten Cliff and her husband now happily call Hobbiton (Matamata) home where the hills are alive with haiku. She spends her days reading, writing, crafting and photographing her way to wellness as she nears the end of her treatment for leukaemia. Her haiku and tanka have been published in several journals across the world, and she is editor of the haikai section of a fine line, the magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society. Be part of her creative jouney at Swimming in Lines of Haiku.


waka taua -
paua eyes reflect
the afternoon midges

 
under the chrysanthemum pot      different lengths of w o r m

 
navigating
these country roads
the curl of her hair

 
        marriage ceremony
           both wear white
       her dress      her dress

 
locking the gate
in autumn twilight
a cicada's shell

 
tending a gravestone ...
the pale skin
of her lower back

 
day moon
hoof prints litter
the beach track

 
as our laughter dies ...
the sound of a thrush
hitting the window

 
emergency waiting room
folded magazine
for a pillow

 
        at opposite ends
     of the haiku pathway
  young poets       old poets

 

Publication notes:

waka taua -: the taste of nashi anthology (Windrift, NZ) 2008.

under the chrysanthemum pot: seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (bottle rockets press, US) 2010.

navigating: Before the Sirocco (New Zealand Poetry Society anthology) 2008.

marriage ceremony: moments in the whirlwind (NZPS anthology 2009).

locking the gate: Presence 40 (UK) 2010.

tending a gravestone ... : Kokako 8 (NZ) 2008.

day moon: 3rd, Katikati Haiku Contest 2008; Bravado 14 (NZ) 2008.

as our laughter dies ... : Kokako 10, 2009.

emergency waiting room: Magazine Six, 2008.

at opposite ends: a fine line (NZPS newsletter) 2010.

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