(Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić, Dejan Pavlinović)
From
left to right: Dejan Pavlinović, Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić reading Nexus
Haiku (Photo by Zdenko Vanjek)
On October 6th, 2019, at the 6th Annual Bučijada Haiku Meeting in
Ivanić-Grad, Croatia, it was our pleasure to present six haiku and one senryu,
each of which was composed co-operatively and equally by all three of us.
During a one year span we composed a total of 85 haiku and senryu that in
each instance was written collaboratively either in pairs or as a group of
three. We discovered that working together on each poem created an
ebb-and-flow, push-and-pull process. Composing stand-alone collaborative haiku
provided continual opportunities for the organic expressions of complementary
energies; complexities of ideas;
shifts of perspectives; and
juxtapositions of personal and cultural experiences, perceptions, and memories.
Since this process represents intersection and unity, each poem is an example
of nexus: a central focal point of
connection. Consequently, we call our
collaborative autonomous poems Nexus Haiku.
Following, are the poems we read at the 6th Annual Bučijada Haiku Meeting:
cafe door hinges
singing all morning
off-beat in rain
kišno jutro -
vratne šarke kafića
pjevaju u off-beatu
bora wind begins
the fragrance of
prosciutto
in waves
okrenulo na buru
zamirisao pršut
u refulima
approaching
her scent before
her kiss
flower moon
njen miris
prije njenog
poljupca
cvjetni mjesec
hibiscus tea
sip by sip among roses
and crickets
čaj od hibiskusa
guc po guc među
ružama
i cvrčcima
angler
the new moon
casting a long
light
ribič
mladi mjesec
baci dugo svjetlo
cigarette ash
still keeping its
shape∼
shed skin of a
snake
još drži oblik
pepeo cigarete∼
odbačena zmijska
koža
Sunday brunch . . .
today's main course
of yesterday's
discussion
nedjeljni ručak …
od jučerašnje
rasprave
današnje glavno
jelo
MICHAEL DUDLEY was born in Toronto, Canada, and has been a haiku poet for
over 40 years. His writing has been internationally published in newspapers,
magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is a member of Haiku Canada and
the Haiku Society of America. More about
Michael at http://michaeljdudley.com
TOMISLAV MARETIĆ is from Zagreb, Croatia. He has been writing haiku for
more than 40 years and his haiku have been published in many national and
international magazines, anthologies, journals and on-line haiku magazines. He
is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association. More about Tomislav at Tomislav
Maretic - Living Haiku Anthology
DEJAN
PAVLINOVIĆ is from Pula, Croatia, and has been writing haiku since 2007. His
haiku poems have been published in various national and international haiku
magazines, journals, newspapers, websites and anthologies. More about Dejan at https://smilingcricket.blogspot.com
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