Moving on . . .
John Daleiden
July has come and
now it is almost gone; the whole month has been like a fireworks
display—a beautiful
summer month, but as short as the life of a July 4th fireworks
display. In Avondale, we never got to see the July 4th fireworks
because our desert environment was just to dry—actually,
in Arizona we had a number of lightening caused wild fires
burning for about two weeks. But now that the summer monsoon has
arrived all the wild fires are extinguished and our weather has
returned to just being hot, hot, hot—and some
short periods of torrential rain.
Summer vacation is
over for my wife and I; this morning as I edit the final pages
for the fifteenth Sketchbook issue, I am amazed
that today, July 29th is the first day of the school year for my
wife who is a middle school Special Education teacher—the students
return to classes on August 2. Where has the summer gone?
The July 2008
"green grass" Kukai Results are now posted on the
July 2008 contents page. Eleven haiku poets submitted
twenty-nine haiku in the kukai; all eleven poets returned
their ballots. Five countries are represented:
Australia, Poland, Trinidad, United States. Congratulations to
these winners:
First Place: Peter Pache, US
Second Place: Barbara A. Taylor, AU
Third Place: Jacek Margolak, PL
Read all of the
"green
grass" Kukai haiku.
The July "flag /
patriotism" haiku thread contains 100 haiku from fifteen poems
living in Seven countries. I enjoyed reading these haiku from
around the world—it is amazing
to me how the various aspects of patriotism are so similarly
exhibited by the haiku poets living all over the word.
Be sure to
read the flag / patriotism haiku thread.
The July Book Fair
Features four books for your enjoyment:
On/Off The Beaten Path: The Road Poems by RD
Armstrong, US;
Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski The Saga Continues,
by RD Armstong,US;
The Whole Body Singing by Quendryth Young, AU;
Lost in the Fog by Lyn Lifshin, AU.
We have received
three Global Correspondent Reports. Jeff Spahr-Summers
provides us with a glimpse elephant wild life in South Africa;
Aju Mukhopadhyay offers us a historic view of changing life in
India; Helen Bar-Lev in Israel offers us a poem about a
rescued kitten.
