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January / February 2011 "heart(s)" Thread
 

 

 

 

Announcing the January / February 2011 "heart" Haiku Thread

The theme of the January / February 2011 haiku thread will be anything to do with "heart(s)".

Writers may post an unlimited number of haiku to the "heart(s)" Haiku Thread.

Subject Line: JanFeb, 2011 "heart(s)" haiku thread.
To: haikuthreadeditor@poetrywriting.org

Deadline: Midnight Thursday, February 24, 2011

Haiku

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All Haiku received will be posted daily on-line at January / February 2011 "heart(s)" Haiku Thread.

The Sketchbook editors will select their Monthly Haiku Choice from this thread for publication in the Monday, February 28, 2011 Sketchbook.
 

 

Read the January / February 28, 2011 Editor's Choices:  Editor Karina Klesko, Editor John Daleiden

 


The following poets have contributed to the January / February 28, 2011 "hear(s)" Haiku Thread

Karin Anderson, AU; Sanjukta Asopa; Priyanka Bhowmick, IN; Willie R. Bongcaron, PH; Alan S. Bridges, US; Bouwe Brouwer, NL; Ralf Bröker, DE; Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă; John Daleiden, US; Joseph Farley, US; Bernard Gieske, US; Cara Holman, US; Marleen Hulst, NL; Alegria Imperial, CA; Krzysztof Kokot, PL; Jacek Margolak, PL; Munia Khan, BD; Chen-ou Liu, CA; Sandra Martyres, IN; Malvina Mileta, CR; Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, RO; Karen O'Leary, US; Marija Pogorilic, CR; Chitra Rajappa, IN; Alex Serban, RO; Keith A. Simmonds, TT; Vania Stefanova, BG; Heike Stehr, DE; Juhani Tikkanen, FN; Maria Tirenescu, RO; Sunil Uniyal, IN; Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR;  Neal Whitman, US; Monika Wojtenka, PL

Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Finland, India, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Thirty-four Poets from twelve countries wrote one-hundred-sixty-six poems for the "Hearts Haiku Thread
 


golden calf
million dollar mansion
with no heart

# 01. Karen O'Leary, US
 


I love you...
she bites half the chocolate heart
I brought her

# 02. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

Valentine's Day
a letter from
the Clerk of Courts


# 03. Alan S. Bridges, US
 

red heart
on the playing cards—
my birthday magic

# 04. Alex Serban, RO
 

whirling
wind´s heart—
flurry of snow

# 05. Juhani Tikkanen, FN
 

that first red apple
was better than any candy—
eve before the dawn

# 06. Joseph Farley, US
 

words left unsaid
drift upon the east wind—
freeze within my heart

# 07. Brian Strand, UK
 

heart song—
the musings of a player
on his saxophone

# 08. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

the old maid—
a gold heart still hangs
on her necklace

# 09. Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, RO
 

hearing our song
my heart
skips to the words

# 10. Bernard Gieske, US
 

Two hearts
two hands
gray temples

# 11. Monika Wojtenka, PL
 

wily caterpillar—
in the heart of lettuce
safely hidden

# 12. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

my heart—what can I
do for you after
all your devotion

# 13. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR
 

sidestepped—
an engraved heart
in the sand

# 14. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

heart-to-heart
with my daughter—
overgrown path

# 15. Sanjukta Asopa
 

rainbow hearts
the distant breeze
showering aroma of love

# 16. Priyanka Bhowmick, IN
 

Heart to mind
Mind to spirit
Lover’s talk

# 17. Munia Khan, BD
 

artichoke hearts
minced and spiced—
salve for pining hearts

# 18. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

heart transplant
he now soars on wings
of a poet's muse

# 19. Karin Anderson, AU
 

glowing kiss—
restless lips mended
by a wild heart

# 20. Marija Pogorilic, CR
 

the space
between our hearts
her breasts

# 21. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

two hearts beating as one

# 22. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

balloon hearts
flutter in the spring breeze
her faraway look

# 23. Chen-ou Liu, CA.
 

pulsating heart
of cloudy skies—
snowstorm

# 24. Juhani Tikkanen, FN
 

two hearts
beat to each other:
street dog and I

# 25. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

singing
by heart—
a wintry cucumber

# 26. Juhani Tikkanen, FN
 

laying in the grass
heart over palm—
a storm approaches

# 27. Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, RO
 

missing the heart's
object of desire...
blind date

# 28. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

a paper heart
pinned on the last page—
"Romeo and Juliet"

# 29. Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, RO
 

jealous heart
the stares of a lover
to his mate

# 30. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

child's kite
lost into
storm's heart

# 31. Juhani Tikkanen, FN
 

the hearts paint
a picture of rose gardens
their first monthsary

# 32. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

heart of the forest—
a hurt deer
finds peace

# 33. Alex Serban, RO
 

flowers
are mute witnesses
a heart's delight

# 34. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

sisters playing
listening to
twin hearts

# 35. Bernard Gieske, US
 

musings of the heart
bring glimmer to her eyes...
love month

# 36. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH
 

lights out
the sound
of a frightened heart

# 37. Bernard Gieske, US
 

Ripped palm
blood on a glass
cracked heart

# 38. Monika Wojtenka, PL
 

on the dance floor
my heart
slowing to the beat

# 39. Bernard Gieske, US
 

in a big break
I steal a kiss—
broken hearts

# 40. Alex Serban, RO
 

a xxx heart xxx
engraved in the tree
broken branches

# 41. Bernard Gieske, US
 

all for love-
he gives her a heart
on a neck chain

# 42. Monika Wojtenka, PL
 

spring jaunt
visiting the island
heart-shaped

# 43. Bernard Gieske, US
 

rainbow at dusk
a crack line through our hearts
carved in a tree trunk

# 44. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

the sky
love-red
my heart turns blue

# 45. Bernard Gieske, US
 

hazy winter moon
the scent from the chocolate heart
under her foot

# 46. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

meeting a rabbit
on the path
my heart freezes

# 47. Bernard Gieske, US
 

my body
blanketing hers
heartbeats

# 48. Chen-ou Liu, CA
 

cop following me
speeding up
my heart

# 49. Bernard Gieske, US
 

he smashes the vase—
to see the flowers fall
break my heart

# 50. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

your letters
trashed
still tear at my heart

# 51. Bernard Gieske, US
 

my sweetheart—
am I good enough
for you

# 52. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR
 

in the attic
faded photographs
darken my heart

# 53. Bernard Gieske, US
 

the knave sniggers—
the Queen of Hearts
talks of love

# 54. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

home sick
chilled heart
of a watermelon

# 55. Bernard Gieske, US
 

beggar with a heart—
feeding his last toast
to a hungry dog

# 56. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

my foolish heart—
where do you hide
all those feelings

# 57. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR 

 

melting snow—
my heart is reborn
in the Spring

# 58. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

to whom belongs
one's heart—is it God,
or is it Love

# 59. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR
 

our hearts melt
into chocolate fondu—
Hershey's Kisses

# 60. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

my mother's
battery powered heart—
rising energy prices

# 61. Juhani Tikkanen, FN
 

heartbeats
of the hazy moon—
sonography

# 62. Sanjukta Asopa
 

shades of fantasy
flying with wings
a dreamy heart

# 63. Priyanka Bhowmick, IN
 

distorted reflections—
long scratch
on the heart shaped mirror

# 64. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

strawberries
cut in half—
such hollow hearts

# 65. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

ellipsis—
between deficiency of heartiness
and heart failure

# 66. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

hearts of romaine—
between them candles flit
in the silence

# 67. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

her Valentine's heart
grass to the letterbox
springs verdant green

# 68. Karin Anderson, AU
 

finding the embryo
of a seed
but not the heart

# 69. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

loneliness in the night—
in the cradle swaying
mother's heart

# 70. Marija Pogorilic, CR
 

heartbeat—
her hand on her belly
searching for it

# 71. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

dead of the night—
in a swaying boat
two hearts in love

# 72. Marija Pogorilic, CR
 

monitor—
his heart’s dips and coasts
but where is love?

# 73. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

hot kisses
in her heartbeat—
lovers on the beach

# 74. Marija Pogorilic, CR
 

closed fist—
the size of a heart
or a blow that hurts

# 75. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

between two kisses
madness of a heart
and nothing else

# 76. Marija Pogorilic, CR
 

losing a heartbeat—
on the hollow of her neck
and on her wrist

# 77. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

an empty vase
on her night table...
broken heart

# 78. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

a widow’s peak—
what makes her face
heart-shaped

# 79. Alegria Imperial, CA
 

cloud-shaped hearts
sailing along
the summer sky

# 80. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 


my heart
swells in love—
spring dream

# 81. Munia Khan, BG
 

scent of lime blossoms
blowing in the wind...
my heart throbs

# 82. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

her pure heart
different than his mournful past—
he tries to resist

# 83. Munia Khan, BG
 

my Valentine
renewing her vows
an open heart

# 84. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

the queen of hearts
defeats eternal love—
the king cries "more"!

# 85. Munia Khan, BG
 

a stream of tears
falling with the raindrops...
a shattered heart

# 86. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 


my dying soul
needs your sacred lone heart—
do not leave

# 87. Munia Khan, BG
 

starry starry hearts
rocking and rolling—
a crescent moon

# 88. Karin Anderson, AU
 

silence—
two hearts of ice
in the glass

# 89. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

over the moon
flashing her ring—
a heart shaped diamond

# 90. Karin Anderson, AU
 

fetal tones—
the echo
of my heart

# 91. Cara Holman, US
 

Her lips Cupid's bow—
the curves
shape the softest heart

# 92. Karin Anderson, AU
 

sweet talk—
savoring the taste
of conversation hearts

# 93. Cara Holman, US
 

a Valentine card—
joy of pressing
the heart’s song

# 94. Karin Anderson, AU
 

carrying her always
in my heart...
forget-me-not

# 95. Cara Holman, US
 

a frothy heart
fluffed in cappuccino magic—
their first date

# 96. Karin Anderson, AU
 

spring garden—
tucked in among the ferns
bleeding heart

# 97. Cara Holman, US
 

child’s tug of heart
balloon lost
in sky squinting blue

# 98. Karin Anderson, AU
 

stolen goods
a pounding heart
as cops arrive

# 99. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

her school diary
hearts and initials
initials and hearts

# 100. Marleen Hulst, NL
 

lungs collapse
no heart beat
next stop heaven

# 101. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

an anniversary
heart made of roses on the tomb
mother's home empty

# 102. Malvina Mileta, CR
 

moonlit night—
lovers' hearts beat faster
under twinkling stars

# 103. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

thunderbolt
I'm covering my heartbeat
with a sheet

# 104. Malvina Mileta, CR
 

girls ecstatic
with their college romances—
heart throbs

# 105. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

youth at the altar
she covers her son's heart
with white silk

# 106. Malvina Mileta, CR
 

lonely hearts
drowning their sorrows—
singles' Bar

# 107. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

chicken hearted
seeing the bullies
he vanishes

# 108. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

on valentine's day
an avalanche of tears—
my broken heart

# 109. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

chemotherapy
the good witch turns bad cells
into heart roses

# 110. Neal Whitman, US
 

your breathing
carries me away—
air bed

# 111. Bouwe Brouwer, NL
 


rose hip tea
the bloom has died
but soothes the heart

# 112. Neal Whitman, US
 

tongue of dog
and heart of cat
Witches' stew

# 113. Sandra Martyres, IN 
 

still life
one rose in art nouveau vase
a secret heart

# 114. Neal Whitman, US
 

It hangs around her neck
a heart shaped locket
with his picture

# 115. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

still on the chair
her sweetheart dress
it's been a year

# 116. Neal Whitman, US
 

she chomped on
little hearts
the biscuits of love

# 117. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

at sunset
her heartwood flute
note worthy

# 118. Neal Whitman, US
 

his big heart
endears him to all
no money in his pocket

# 119. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

not a common cockle
stooping for heart shells
our last summer

# 120. Neal Whitman, US
 

it will be snatched away
he wears his heart
on his sleeve

# 121. Sandra Martyres, IN
 

by reputation
heart of stone never broken
now cracked

# 122. Neal Whitman, US
 

starry night
above a smouldering fire
her freckles

# 123. Bouwe Brouwer, NL
 

popped the question
strawberries and cream
just dessert

# 124. Neal Whitman, US
 

summer night
her dress twists wildly
between the car door

# 125. Bouwe Brouwer, NL
 

rose at dawn
kissed Rose at dawn
my beating heart

# 126. Neal Whitman, US
 

center of the force—
rose quartz
to my heart

# 127. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

 a song
in my heart...
Valentine's Day

# 128. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

morning cold
my cat nearer and nearer
the hearth fire

# 129. Jacek Margolak, PL
 

innocent hearts
glowing in the moonlight:
mysterious feelings

# 130. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

storm clouds
I hear
my heart beat

# 131. Jacek Margolak, PL
 

a heart
filled with hope ...
tears of joy

# 132. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

Valentine's Day
in my son's exercise book
a broken heart drawing

# 133. Jacek Margolak, PL
 

sunny horizon—
an old man makes figurines
from heart of oak

# 134. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

starting the engine...
she calls me
heartbreaker

# 135. Jacek Margolak, PL
 

skip pages—
near the heart of
the mystery

# 136. Vania Stefanova, BG
 

preschooler's drawing
the father
with a big heart

# 137. Jacek Margolak, PL
 

first sonogram—
my heart races
to keep pace ...

# 138. Chitra Rajappa, IN
 

early in the morning
she listens
to his heart-beat

# 139. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

world cup tie—
a million hearts
beat as one

# 140. Chitra Rajappa, IN 
 

Valentine's Day
she awakes with
a racing heart

# 141. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

white dove—
red heart with spray
on the wall

# 142. Krzysztof Kokot, PL
 

"kind of blue"
and I throw my heart
into the winter

# 143. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

heart throb
I count
my fingers

# 144. Heike Stehr, DE
 

young grass
he lost his heart
in an accident

# 145. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

one throb
of two hearts ...
true love

# 146. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

first warm day
the candlelight dinner ends
with heartburn

# 147. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

embers of discord
smouldering in the heart ...
enemy brothers

# 148. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

two pairs
the river shows
another heart

# 149. Ralf Bröker, DE
 

bruised spirit ...
a beleaguered heart
searching for love

# 150. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

old diary—
in a faded Valentine heart
a tress

# 151. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă
 

Snow shimmering—
two hearts
pictured on the window

# 152. Maria Tirenescu, RO
 

her heart ablaze
as she looks into his eyes...
her very first kiss

#153. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

heart elsewhere
i walk on the beach
all alone
.
# 154. Sunil Uniyal, IN
 

to my Valentine...
a red rose unfolding
in a heart of love

# 155. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

Grandma sews a heart
on the grand-daughter’s bonnet—
it is snowing

# 156. Maria Tirenescu, RO
 

perfect union...
a rainbow of colours
across my heart

# 157. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

It is snowing—
she dreams of a cake
like a heart

# 158. Maria Tirenescu, RO
 

young lovers
gazing at the stars
hearts throbbing

# 159. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
 

on Valentine's Day—
carving a new heart
on our bench

# 160. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă
 

ultrasound—
listening to the heart
of my unborn baby

# 161. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă
 


Valentine's Day date—
letting him touch
my tattoo

# 162. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă
 

beyond compare
this chocolate sweetness
Spring dream

# 163. John Daleiden, US
 

her heart
a hearth—
first date

# 165. Cezar-Florian Ciobîcă
 

two hearts together
walking through the forest
hazy moon

# 166. John Daleiden, US
 

 

Read the January / February 28, 2011 Editor's Choices:  Editor Karina Klesko, Editor John Daleiden

 

 

 

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