Rain
Haiku
i
In a
distant land
I think of the first rain
Falling on dusty fields
ii
Drops
begin to fall
Wetting parched leaves
Rain has returned
iii
House
gutters run fast
A merriment of rain
Water flows rapidly
iv
On an
arid land
Rain caresses dry soil
The cycle is renewed
v
Through
a rain curtain
I see my native hills
Grow green once more
About
Tom Berman, IL
I have been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee,
Israel for over 50 years. I am a scientist (aquatic
microbiology) and most of my research has been focused on
the Sea of Galilee (known here as Lake Kinneret). I grew up
and attended school in Glasgow, Scotland having arrived
there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia with the Kindertransport in
1939. Further education was in the U.S. at Rutgers
University and at M.I.T. I am married with one wife, three
daughters, seven granddaughters, a grandson and a mongrel
dog.
Most of my publications have been scientific but now I have
two collections of my poetry to my name; Shards, a
Handful of Verse and Rambles, Outings with a Wayward Muse
(both available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc).
Now and again I have had poems appear in press (Ariel,
Voices Anthologies, Full Circle, Voices from Israel,
Travelling, Across the Long Bridge, Sailing in the Mists of
Time, The World Poets Quarterly, Aquirelle, Magnapoets)
or on the Web (Poetry Webring Review, Poetry Life &
Times, Ariga, Poeticdiversity, PoetrySuperHighway, SubtleTea,
The Coffee Press Journal, Lily, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry,
Illiterate Hooligan, The Poetry Victims, Cyclamens & Swords
and elsewhere). From 2003 to 2006 I served as Editor in
Chief of the annual Voices Israel Anthology.
This is Tom
Bergman's first appearance in Sketchbook.
