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                           Nola Borrell  

Nola Borrell, a European New Zealander, has had haiku and other forms of poetry published in New Zealand and overseas since the mid-1990s. Her haiku collection, tui in my kowhai, was commended in the Snapshot Press International Haiku Collection Competition, 2006. She has won awards in several competitions, including both 1st and 2nd in the 2006 Katikati Pathway Haiku Contest. Nola co-edited the 2008 national haiku anthology, the taste of nashi, and judged the junior section of the NZPS haiku contest in 2008. She co-organised a the first national haiku festival in 2005 with Karen Peterson Butterworth and the late Jeanette Stace. Nola is secretary/treasurer of Windrift Haiku Group of Wellington and a member of Zazen, an email workshop. Contact Nola.

  
cherry trees
blossoming without words
haiku festival
  
  

dream joke
I wake up and hear
my laugh

 

school reunion
such warm interest
from the class bully

 

takeaways
carrying blue cod
back to the beach

 

the blue damselfly
swinging from a stem tip
autumn light

 

a red admiral
clinging to the power pole
summer's end

 
all-day climb
a black shag soars
above the peak


 
Motuara
climbing in Cook's steps
past a ruined pa

 
early morning
between the moon and me
a cloud comes and goes

 

country drive
the child watches sheep
on a laptop

 

Publication notes:
cherry trees: paper wasp, Jack Stamm Award, 2007.
dream joke : A Savage Gathering, NZPS Anthology, 2002.
school reunion: The Enormous Picture, NZPS Anthology, 2004.
takeaways: Kokako #4, 2006. 
the blue damselfly: Presence #33, 2007.
a red admiral: Kokako #7, 2007.
all-day climb: Ikebana-Haiku-Bonsai Exhibition, Wellington International Chapter of Ikebana, 2006.
Motuara: Kokako #4, 2006.
early morning: Yellow Moon #17, 2005.
country drive: paper wasp, Jack Stamm Award, 2007.

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