Biding Time, selected poems by: h. gene murtha

BIDING TIME, selected poems by:  H. Gene Murtha

Biding Times, is a collection of poetry: haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun.  A collection  compiled between 2001 and 2013.  Over 115 poems within the perfect bound covers.  This is a limited first run, accompanied by an audio CD.  Orders are being accepted now, through PayPal, account number:  gmu9240555 (at) yahoo (dot) com

No spaces (gmu9240555@yahoo.com).   Prices are for the book and CD.  $15.00 within the USA.  $17.00 Canada and Mexico.  $19.00 Overseas, to reserve your copy.  If you would rather send a Money Order, that is fine just contact me for the information 

Biding Time will hit the streets June,  2014.

biding time

spit drips down

the thistle

Haiku News

If anyone is in the Philadelphia, Camden, NJ. area, March, Saturday, March 3, 2012.

Tom Painting will be presenting a haiku workshop from 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. at

the Sacred Heart Church cafeteria, 1739 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ 08104.

Fees: $10.00 per person, which includes lunch. Anyone who plans to attend, and

would like to have their work considered for workshop, submit up to 3 haiku by

February 16, 2012 to Michele L. Robinson: robinson(dot)m(dot)l(at)comcast(dot)net

Register by February 16, 2012. Please send a $10.00 check with contact information

to: Mary Heron, 824 Widener Road, Elkins Park, PA. 19027.

Questions, email Mary H. Heron at:

mhheron(at)verizon(dot)net

After the workshop, the NVHA is offering a tour of the Waterfront South Arts District.

Note: donations are always welcome. Annual Membership is $10.00 per year, Lifetime

Membership is $50.00, a onetime fee.

for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Assoc.

originally written during the Virgilio Memorial Reading, June 2006, & a tanka:

memorial reading:
in between Walt Whitman
and Virgilio
an egret, steadfast--
pure white & naked

tanka

we lean

into one another's
broken parts
a pair of thrush
rebuild their nest


*for Inky

alone
gazing out upon
the breakwater
everything I've lost
everything I've birthed




sharing love
with another child
I count
the different shapes
of each snowflake





an iris
trapped in a vase
like love
there are things
we never wanted

knapsack
and cane pole
I search
the pond's edge
for an answer

a hopi carves
the kachina from cottonwood
my roots too
are plucked like shavings
from the whittler's knife

note: the Hopi are an south western Native American Tribe, a Kachina is a doll.

Barry George, Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku

**NEW

Dear fellow haiku poets & friends:

I am proud to announce the publication of my chapbook; Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku from Accents Publishing. A haiku chronicle of the seasons in my home city, Philadelphia, it collects poems that have appeared in haiku journal in recent years, with some new poems as well.

Perfect bound, 30 haiku, 30 pages; just $5 dollars. Reviewed in the current edition of Frogpond.

It is available from the publisher Accent Publishing: http://www.accents-publishing.com/, from http://www.amazon.com/. or from me:

Barry George
2011 Chestnut st., #11G
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103

($5 plus $1 shipping & handling, within the USA). Please make Check out to: Barry George.

when you think

when you think
you've heard it all--
brown thrasher

The Heron's Nest 11:4

haiku, Acorn # 23, fall 2009

new moon. . .
an old woman speaks
of the emptiness

ancient trail
footprints fade
with the dew