World Haiku Series 2022 (67) Haiku by Luminita Suse (Canada)

Haiku and Haiga by Luminita Suse

noisy pond
a diving heron
mutes another frog

still pond
the water striders
walk on clouds

second snow
as hasty as the first
yet serious

war in the sky
a murmuration
repels a hawk

letting autumn
take over the earth
sky murmuration

opening
hidden doors
maple keys

solstice joy
more sunlight ahead
for daydreaming

the moon
folding origami waves
to keep Earth going

years later
my stacked stones
have company

flood tide

the sea reclaims sand
from our castles

(haiga attached / haiku to appear soon in the anthology “to hang my hat” of the Trillium Haiku Group of Haiku Canada) 

About Luminita Suse

Luminita Suse is a computer scientist and an enthusiast photographer living in Ottawa, Canada. Her haiku, haiga and tanka appeared around the world, in publications such as: Asahi Haikuist Network, Frogpond, Prune Juice, Cattails Journal, Akitsu Quartely, Failed Haiku, Haiku Canada Review, Daily Haiga, Ribbons, Gusts, Skylark, Atlas Poetica, Red Lights, Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka 2010/2011, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka, Kokako, Skylark, Ardea, Cirrus: tanka de nos jours. She got honourable mentions in the 7^th and the 8^th International Tanka Festival Competitions, 2012/2016, organized by Japan Tanka Poets’ Society. Also, in the Under the Basho, International Haiku Contest, 2014, and in the 6^th and the 10^th Setouchi Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku contests, Japan. She got a Sakura Award in the 2021 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Contest, Canada.

I would like to submit the following 10 haiku / haiga (see the attached image files) for the Haiku World Series 2022, theme: Earth. They are my original haiku and artworks using photos that I took myself. All haiku and haiga are unpublished except for the last haiku in the list below, which will appear this year in an anthology, details provided below.