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Issue 26: 1 Jan. 2025
Haiku: 7 + 11 + 8
  + 10 words
Collaborative Haiga
Poems by Roberta Beary

Paintings by Kevin Beary

Four Haiga from Caretaker I & II

 

(cheshire moon) haiga: Poem by Roberta Beary; Painting by Kevin Beary
Cheshire Moon (painting) copyrighted © by Kevin Beary, and poem
copyrighted © by Roberta Beary. All rights reserved.*

 

 

(rain all day) haiga: Poem by Roberta Beary; Painting by Kevin Beary
Sunset (painting, detail) copyrighted © by Kevin Beary, and poem
copyrighted © by Roberta Beary. All rights reserved.*

 

 

(day of blossoms) haiga: Poem by Roberta Beary; Painting by Kevin Beary
Offered Rose (painting) copyrighted © by Kevin Beary, and poem
copyrighted © by Roberta Beary. All rights reserved.*

 

 

(on the church steps) haiga: Poem by Roberta Beary; Painting by Kevin Beary
Last Rose of Summer (painting, detail) copyrighted © by Kevin Beary,
and poem copyrighted © by Roberta Beary. All rights reserved.*

 

 

* Publisher’s Note:

The collaborative haiga above are copyrighted © 2018 by poet Roberta Beary and visual artist Kevin Beary, and appear here with their permissions. These haiga are excerpted from Caretaker 1 & 2, a free-format film in The Haiku Foundation Video Project, HaikuLife 2018. (Scroll down the project page for the specific link to the Caretaker film.)

The haiku (“cheshire moon”) in the first haiga above is from the sequence “Caretaker–I” in Roberta Beary’s collection of poetry, Deflection (Accents Publishing, 2015). Haiku in the other three haiga are from “Caretaker–II” in the same book.

 

Bio: Roberta Beary

 
 
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