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Sandra Simpson          

Sandra Simpson lives in Tauranga. One of her haiku has been engraved on to a rock on the Katikati Haiku Pathway, and her work appears regularly in journals (paper and online) both in New Zealand and overseas. She was the only Southern Hemisphere haiku poet to be included in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in Haiku (Red Moon Press, US, 2007) and her work appeared in the third New Zealand haiku anthology, teh taste of nashi  (Windrift, 2008), which took its name form one of her haiku.. She is editor of the Haiku NZ webpages and secretary of the Katikati Haiku Pathway committee. Contact Sandra.

shearing machines stop ...
for a moment
no one speaks
  
  
country dance -
men still wet
behind the ears
  
  
breaking the drought
the wetness
of your mouth


 
roadside stand
last lilies
before sunset
  
  
goldfields inn
the butter
rock hard
  

rain again -
flipping the calendar
to summer
  
  
summer's green leaf
so flexible, so pliant
your love for me
  
  
first dance -
the moon
in her hair
  
  
dull day -
the way a raindrop
runs down the banana leaf
  
  
summer's end
moving towards me
the shadow of the house
  

Publication Notes:
shearing machines stop ...: winterSPIN, 1997.
country dance: Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology (NZPS) 1998.
breaking the drought: the infinity we swim in (NZPS) 2007.
roadside stand: kiwihaiku (NZPS newsletter), 2006.
goldfields inn: unpublished.
rain again - : Basho Festival Haiku Anthology (Japan) 2003.
summer's green leaf: Kokako 7, 2007.
first dance -: The Heron's Nest (US) 2004.
dull day -: Kokako, 2006.
summer's end: Simply Haiku (US) 2007.

                                                                             

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



 

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