Illustration by Betsy Bowen
MERRY HAIKU CHRISTMAS
home for Christmas:
my childhood desk drawer
empty
— Michael Dylan Welch
snowstorm
a baseball glove
under the Christmas tree
— Cor Van Der Heuvel
In the passing caboose……… Christmas lights
— Alexis Rotella
Editor’s Note: The three haiku are from THE HAIKU ANTHOLOGY, Third Edition., edited by Cor Van Der Heuvel, W.W.Norton, 1999. A perfect Christmas gift for poets and lovers of poetry. The illustration, by Betsy Bowen, from her book, ANTLER, BEAR, CANOE, A Northwoods Alphabet Year, Little Brown and Co.1991. Another highly recommended Christmas gift for kids or adults, whether one knows the alphabet or not…anything illustrated by Betsy Bowen (woodblock prints) a visual poem in its own right. — Norbert Blei
Wowser!
Read these haikus just after taking stills of you off your fine link you sent yesterday, >https://files.me.com/billyoumans/bymted.mov<
Am having a great Norblei day. Merry Christmas!
Yes, I remember the baseball glove under the tree … I had studied it for weeks when walking past Smith Hardware on Main Street. At $4.95 it was too much to hope for!
Christmas eve
following some yonder star
a UPS truck
Gift winging through the air, landing on desk instead of
under tree. Nothing I can touch, only feel, smile, love.
So many people with such unique and beautiful things to
share.
Thanks to Santa Blei.