Two Poems by Lesley Burt
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Tanka by Dietmar Tauchner
early in the morning
between bedroom and future
bird twitter
through april rain
the way of school children
Dietmar Tauchner was born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna, as a social-worker/councelor. His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and attended the First and the Second European Haiku Conference, The Haiku North America Conference in 2005, as well as the World Haiku Association Conference 2009 in Lithuania, where he held lectures and readings.
Three Haiku by Imogen Forster
In my neighbour's window,
a hammock, or angel's wings,
it's hard to be sure.
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The sky all inflamed,
dark masses moving westward,
cloud haematomas.
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Cloud beasts: a griffon,
a wyvern, a basilisk,
dissolving to nothing.
Imogen Forster is a translator, and has published poetry in Lighthouse, HARK, Lunar Poetry and Southlight, and online in Ink, Sweat and Tears, And Other Poems and Kumquat Poetry, among others.