Haiku by Marta Chocilowska
leaf mould
the rhinoceros beetle
goes to rest
(ESUJ_H November 2022)
a pitiless sun
the sycamore leaves
cone-shaped
(The Asahi Shimbun Nov. 18, 2022)
town under siege
the war newsman reports
that birds sing again
(The Asahi Shimbun August 5, 2022)
long rain
the great grey slugs
crawl out
(Brass Bell: a haiku journal, August 2022)
air pollution
a forgotten fragrance
of spring rain
global warming
nothing but bindweeds
and mosquitoes
poisoned river
nothing will ever be
the same
scorched earth
the tourists take selfie
in a riverbed
outer space
is our planet
still blue?
the black earth
rooks stride nodding
in the furrows
Bio note:
Marta Chocilowska is a cat lover and haiku poet. Her poems have been published in haibun, haiga and haiku journals worldwide. She has co-authored several haiga, haiku and senryu anthologies; her The Seasons in Polish Haiku came out in 2015. She has been a prize-winner or a judge in various haiku contests and won the Sponsor’s Award in the Ito en Oi Ocha New Haiku Contest 2016 and The Merit Award in 2017.
She has been president of the Polish Haiku Association since 2018 and managing editor of the PHA’s annual almanac Migratory Birds. She also serves as manager of The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry. She resides in Warsaw, Poland.
Akita International Haiku Network 
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