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               Patricia Prime     

Patricia is a semi-retired early childhood teacher who has worked in the sector for 35 years. She began writing in her 50s. She is the co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine, Kokako, assistant editor of Haibun Today, and writes reviews for Takahe, Gusts (Canada) and for several Indian magazines. Patricia has interviewed several poets and editors for Takahe, a New Zealand literary journal, and for the online magazines Simply Haiku, Haibun Today, Stylus, and for several print journals.

She is on a panel of judges for the Presence Seashell Game, for the MetVerse Muse traditional poetry competitions, and for the Take Five Tanka Anthologies 2008, 2009 and 2010. She recently became a member of GIEWEC, the Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics and is a member of the advisory board of the New Fiction Journal.

Her poetry, a review and an interview are to be published in the World Poetry Almanac (Mongolia), 2010. Contact Pat.

 

frolicking
in the disused cow pond
two dragonflies

 

 

end of summer term
students' duties removed
from the whiteboard

 

 

on the battlefield
I find half a button
slimed with moss

 

 

gathering storm
the scent of lavender
across the fence

 

 

Chinese busker -
the notes of his bone flute
carried on the wind

 

 

ghost town
the empty highway
into the hills

 

 

under my hand
slow sweep
of a horse's mane

 

 

first frost
the camper van
on blocks

 

 

gloomy day
the farmer's motorbike light
on the flooded field

 

 

summer dawn
the runners' footsteps
past the window

 

 

Publication notes:

frolicking: Time Haiku (UK) No. 32.

end of summer term: Autumn Deepens, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society 35th commemoratve members' anthology (US) 2010.

on the battlefield: 3rd Place, Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest (Croatia) 2010.

gathering storm: 2nd Place, New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Contest 2010.

Chinese busker -: Time Haiku, No. 32.

ghost town: Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 4, No. 2.

under my hand: Bravado 20 (NZ) 2010.

first frost: Geppo (US), Vol. 35:5.

gloomy day: Earth, British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, 2009.

summer dawn: Geppo Vol. 35:4.

                                                                                                          

                                                                                                           Haiku by Patricia Prime, Katikati Haiku Pathway
                                                                                                           (Sandra Simpson photo).

                                                                                                          

                                                                                          

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