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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.

lily pad
the holding pattern
of dragonflies
  
daguerreotype
my infamous ancestor
in diapers
  
hospice
he doesn't ask me
about the storm
  
childhood home
someone else's mother
on the mantelpiece
  
high desert
i'm surrounded
by a fly
  
circus tent
a silhouette
cross-dresses
  
harbour view
a cruise ship leaves
all my longings
  
muddy garden
her puppy
brings it in
  
theme park
the native butterfly
made in china
  
dustbowl
a buffalo skull
whistles

 

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

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