World Haiku Series 2022 (125) Haiku by Xenia Tran (Scotland)

Haiku by Xenia Tran

eyes so blue

the child’s first glimpse

of the sea

(Presence Issue #72, March 2022; Dawn Returns, Haiku Society of America Member’s 2022 Anthology)

second-hand bookstore –

a blue and yellow candle

lit in the corner

(Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 9 March 2022)

here – the silenced

still speak

war graves

(The Asahi Shimbun, 29 April 2022)

their own nest

between rooftops

cherry blossom

(Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:2, Spring-Summer 2022)

his ashes

next to hers

summer rain

(Under the Basho, 16 November 2022)

gentle rain

tea is steeping

on the warmer

(The Asahi Shimbun, 3 June 2022)

eastern light

how times slips by

since your passing

(haikuKATHA, Issue 10, August 2022)

salmon sky –

poppies lean the past

into the half light

(tranature blog, 22 June 2022)

red berry tea

the birds just starting

to sing

(Presence Issue #73, July 2022)

autumn moon

my first sixty years

of wandering

(haikuKATHA, Issue 13, November 2022)

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Biography:

Xenia Tran is a poet, artist and photographer who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands with her husband and her adopted and fostered animals. Originally from The Netherlands, she writes haiku in Dutch and English. Her poems have been featured in haiku calendars, a haiku wheel, on television and in videos, anthologies, journals and magazines as well as in two full-length collections. A regular blogger since early 2016, she shares her images and words at https://tranature.com and https://whippetwisdom.com. She is passionate about safeguarding the natural beauty of our world for future generations and loves spending time in nature. A poem she wrote for her grandmother’s hundredth birthday and a haibun inspired by a walk in Glenmore Forest are included in an anthology that will be travelling to the moon.

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