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   Ernest J Berry                

Ernest J Berry was born 1929 in Christchurch. After a decade of shepherding in Poverty Bay and the Canterbury high country, he spent several years in business in Auckland before retiring to a wilderness beach in Mexico where he rediscovered his childhood love of [short] poetry. He un-retired in 1993 and settled in Picton where he adopted haiku as a retirement project. He has been deeply involved with the haiku movement world-wide ever since. Two of his many haiku books  have been honoured with Merit Book Awards from The Haiku Society of America and he has long lost count of his successes in haiku competions. After founding Picton Poets in 1994, Ernie has taught haiku in workshop, secondary schools, poetry meetings and special-interest groups. Contact Ernie.

 

hurricane
the taste of rain
from a barrel
  
  
daguerreotype
my infamous ancestor
in diapers
  
  
clouded moon
the sound of her slip
hitting the floor
  
  
childhood home
someone else's mother
on the mantelpiece
  
  
high desert
i'm surrounded
by a fly
  
  
terminal.
she skirts
the word
  
  
neighbour's cat
the cicada in its teeth
keeps singing
  
  
muddy garden
her puppy
brings it in
  
  
bulldozer
a yellow caterpillar
in its tracks

 

  
  
bright moon
light years
between starfish


 

 

 

Haiku by Ernest J Berry, Katikati Haiku Pathway (Sandra Simpson photo).

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