Hot News: Butterfly Dream, Volume III

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. -- Anaïs Nin

My Dear Contributors and Readers:

I am pleased to announce that Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume Three 2017 is now available online for your reading pleasure (Note: I'd revised some of Chinese translations. For those whose haiku are included in the anthology, each  will receive a copy of its e-book edition within three days)

This book is dedicated to Jane Reichhold (1937 -- 2016), second NeverEnding Story supporter and contributor.

Perhaps, nothing is absolute in haiku. Like life, haiku require learning, experience and balance. -- Jane Reichhold

Featured Haiku by Jane Reichhold

canyon stream
dried to a slit
of clear sky

moving into the sun
the pony takes with him
some mountain shadow

coming home
flower
           by
                   flower

Please post to all appropriate venues. Your time and help would be greatly appreciated. And I look forward to reading your haiku (see "2017 Butterfly Dream: Call for Haiku Submissions"; Deadline: December 31)

Happy Reading

Chen-ou


Selected Haiku:

after the funeral
first a sprinkle of stars
then a dusting of snow

Angelee Deodhar

braiding
silence into a dream …
the full moon

Rita Odeh

twilight on snow shadows deepen the grip of stars

Alan Summers

a firefly’s glow
against her palm
passed to mine

Michael Dylan Welch

snow upon snow
the layers of oblivion
in my father's mind       

Dietmar Tauchner

autumn wind
the yellowing leaves
of a diary

Anna Maris

bark
becoming whimper
becoming night

Polona Oblak

petal by petal the yellow rose on her inner thigh

S.M. Abeles

fading summer
the robin's song trails
my melancholy

Caroline Skanne

shades of blue …
the deer’s remaining eye
cradled by bone

Susan Constable

midnight surf
the rumble of moonlight

Simon Hanson

stone cairns
a faded cap drifts
downriver

Debbie Strange

rumble of the metro
a queue of city crabs
inches forward

Fay Aoyagi

last rites. . .
rain fading into
bird song

Carl Seguiban

farmer's scythe
a harvesting song
in each sweep

an'ya

nagasaki ...
in her belly, the sound
of unopened mail

Don Baird

empty house
that kiss
deeper

ai li

my son and  i
counting fireflies
counting stars

Roberta Beary

from star to star
down the Milky Way
a little finger

Dejan Pavlinović

        border

more than two sides to it
   
                       crossing

Joan Prefontaine

bullettrainallisforgotten

Michael Henry Lee

she waves a thin blue scarf becoming sky

Lorin Ford