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Margaret Beverland           

Margaret Beverland moved to Katikati in 2004. On discovering the Haiku Pathway, she began to study and write haiku, and was invited to be Treasurer for the Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee. Her work was first published in the taste of nashi the third New Zealand Haiku Anthology (Windrift 2008), and since then her work has appeared in Kokako, Bravado, and in two NZ Poetry Society anthologies, and overseas in Australia and the United States. In 2010 one of her haiku was engraved on a boulder on the Haiku Pathway. Contact Margaret.

 

whitebait season . . .
fisherman fritter away
the day

 


deeper
      deeper
             into the stream
                   the shadow of a swallow

 


beyond the yellow gate
             marigolds
marigolds             marigolds
              marigolds

 


           the thrush
                 just
                 part
                   of
                  the
                  old
                fence
                 post

 


every morning
waiting for the kingfisher . . .
bare branch of the eucalypt

 


as the days grow shorter
thyme         flowers in my garden

 


wind chimes across parched fields a dandelion drifts

 


if not for the shadow
on the canyon wall
I would have missed the condor

 

clouds
chasing clouds
the scent of lemon

 


all the way down
freewheeling through
cicada song

Publication Notes:

whitebait season: the taste of nashi anthology (Windrift, NZ) 2008.

deeper: moments in the whirlwind (NZ Poetry Society anthology) 2009.

beyond the yellow gate: Kokako 10 (NZ) 2009.

the thrush: ibid.

every morning: Kokako 11, 2009.

as the days grow shorter: seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (Bottle Rockets Press, US) 2010.

wind chimes across... Kokako 12, 2010.

if not for the shadow: ibid.

clouds: FreeXpresSion, (Australia) May 2010.

all the way down: Bravado 19 (NZ) 2010.

 

 

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