Tributes to William J Higginson
If you would care to add your tribute please send one haiku per poet to Graham Nunn secretary@haikuoz.org by October 27, 2008.
Please be prepared to wait a few days for collation and posting. The poems you contribute will then be sent on to Bill Higginson's family. With regard to sharing your poem with other sites which are paying tribute to Bill, we believe tributes stand outside normal submission rules but poets should acknowledge prior postings.active webcam 6.3 full
cliff top –
the tallest pine tree
bends to windactive webcam 6.3 full
Janice M. Bostok (Australia)active webcam 6.3 full
out of darkness
a flash of lightning
into darkness
Kirsty Karkow (USA)
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opening his book . . .
the world he offered
tumbles out
Beverley George (Australia)active webcam 6.3 full
Haiku World
from East to West
a bow to his spirit
Maria Steyn (South Africa)active webcam 6.3 full
billowing light . . .
the dried ink-stone
filled with starsactive webcam 6.3 full
Ron Moss (Australia)active webcam 6.3 full
farewell
I pass as all things do
dew on the grass active webcam 6.3 full
mame de iyo
mi wa narawashi no
kusa no tsuyu
Banzan (Japan)
this poem by Banzan who died in 1730 was contributed by Dawn Bruce (Australia)active webcam 6.3 full
still hearing
his voice
in his poems
Dorothy McLaughlin (USA)active webcam 6.3 full
comet…
fades into the night
trailing brilliance
Cynthia Rowe (Australia)
night of stars -
a passing breeze
caresses my hair
Angelee Deodhar (India)active webcam 6.3 full
flying into fog—
the white swan’s sound
left behindactive webcam 6.3 full
Carole MacRury (USA)active webcam 6.3 full
haiku friend
a lifetime celebration
of the momentactive webcam 6.3 full
Jean Rasey (Australia)active webcam 6.3 full
When I showed him my small book “Cosmos”, Bill san asked me “ Do you know the two meanings of cosmos ? I grew up in a house near a cosmos field”.
So I have chosen the season word cosmos to honour this calm, kind ,man. active webcam 6.3 full
news of his passing –
cosmos droops
in morning rainactive webcam 6.3 full
Minako Noma (Japan) active webcam 6.3 full
morning coolness
on the autumn grass
a dragonfly's wingactive webcam 6.3 full
Origa (USA) active webcam 6.3 full