poets of bear creek haiku #137: Martha Christina, Bijoy Kumar Dubey, Chris Faiers, Ilma Fontes, Carl Mayfield, Bradley Mcilwain, Judith Partin-Nielsen, Teresinka Pereira, and! David Sermersheim!

"Welcome, friends!," 

from assistant editor tama 

"and here are some of the thirty-five poets on the pages of 

bear creek haiku #137!"                                                

"Can't help but love 'em all," 

asserts assistant editor 

frosty, "and! here we go..."

things unfold

as they do

and even in that

there is

a special beauty

judith partin-nielsen   longmont, colorado

                 

               The Road

    

                 if the road is willing

                 and the way 

                 not to hard

                 we may meet again

                 at the end

                 of the beginning

                 and start again

                 david sermersheim  

                 westbrook, connecticut

                             

           

           

           Poetry of man,

           Poetry of earth,

           Poetry of time,

           Share I with.

           Poetry of man,

           Poetry of life

           And poetry of the world

           Am I where?

           bijoy kumar dubey   

           west bengal, india

                      hawks soar

                      on the shortest day

                      of 2016

                                        chris faiers   marmora, ontario

muddy path

boots press on

always seeking

bradley mcilwain

brooklin, ontario

across the kitchen table

          our fingers

        losing the way

carl mayfield

rio rancho, new mexico

AGAIN

Into the fog,

five gulls

disappear,

then, reappear,

like memories of you.        martha christina    bristol, rhode island

                                                           

                                                   

               Me?  Did I forget?   

                         

                 I don't know any more what                  

                 I was looking for

                 But I know I did not find

                 a thing

                 I was not found

                 but I found myself

                 ah!  What did I say?

                 I don't know, I got lost

                 but it doesn't matter, soon

                 the wheel of life

                 will bring it back again.

                 ilma fontes  aracaju, brazil

                 teresinka pereira, translator

                 toledo, ohio

teresinka pereira, for all of us,

                              Happy 2017 are our 

                              wishes from my house

                              to your house!

assistant editors: "Everyone, Happy New Years, with extra special treats and unexpected blessings for all!"

see you in a 2017 moment

ayaz daryl nielsen

                                                      darylayaz@gmail.com

  

Yasuomi Koganei: "Haiku Poems and Short-short Stories", and! the Meguro International Haiku Circle!

assistant editor Tama:                                                   

"we're filled with excitement!
We have Yasuomi's
print collection of
poetry and writings

(in Japanese and English) 
and! a haiku collection 
from Meguro International 
Haiku Circle's workshops, 

July 2009 thru Dec. 2013!"

"and, they sent us kitty treats!" yelps assistant editor Frosty. . .

in the May breeze

  staring at ants

    the jobless

  God's finger

scratches the earth

     -tornado

central station
in the twilight--
suspended dreams

from the heartland of haiku and all related forms, we're

delighted Yasuomi sent us these two poetry books. . .

assistant editor Tama: "we must join the
Meguro International Haiku Circle!
Poets from so many lovely places!"

assistant editor Frosty, asking "from Croatia children?"
yes, Frosty, haiku from Croatian children, including
Robert Mic (thirteen years old) -

forest in the mist
the bare tips of a tree
reach the sky

"and the poetry, prose, haiga, international poetry festivals and workshops, everything one's haiku heart desires, and, in English and Japanese!" states Tama

"how about a poem from Stockholm?" asks Frosty. . .
Here's one, of several, from Robert Scott!

                           arriving
                           with the snow
                           a letter from home

Frosty, "what about a French Canadian poet?"  Yes, this anthology
has them, including no other than André Duhaime, awarded the Canada-Japan Literary Award:
                   
                rain and hunger
                if Bashō brought me a banana
                I wouldn't say no

Frosty, about to say: "how about"/umm, Frosty, how about we soon taste the treats Yasuomi sent us?

"hooray for Yasuomi!", yelp happy assistant editors Tama and Frosty

HAIKU  2oth Anniversary  Meguro International Haiku Circle
Published by Meguro International Haiku Circle
editors: Chief: Yasuomi Koganei, also, Juichi Masuda, Kenichi Ikemoto, Michiko Murai, Yasuhiko Shirota, Midori Tanaka. . .

(Tama:  "we have many highly-respected Tanaka families here in Longmont, Colorado, USA!  They were instrumental in creation of
our five-story Pagoda of Compassion!")

email:  yix04102@nifty.com       http://www.geocities.jp/yix04102/

and!  Haiku Poems and Short-short Stories
by Yasuomi Koganei
ISBN978-4-903944-18-0   COO92
why don't we all email these lovely folk with our curiousnesses about and support of their loverly creativeness?            
again, yix04102@nifty.com


now, it's treats for everyone!
with happy mews from assistant editors Tama and Frosty


see you in a moment


ayaz daryl nielsen

                                               darylayaz@gmail.com
                                 
  

The Poet's Dog by PATRICIA MacLACHLAN, poetically beauteous, filled with heart...

assistant editor's Tama and Frosty, elated by a tail they've discovered 'and we so want to share it with you', purrs Tama

                      

'and that's tale, not tail,

mr. editor', 

mews frosty                           

sorry, noble assistants, 
just kidding! 

please, share your 

tale with us...

'this lovely story', 

says Tama, 'about Teddy,

by Patricia MacLachlan, 

speaks for itself, for kids,
for dogs, and for poets!'

'and kitties', adds Frosty 

'it's for and about all of us!' 

  

Teddy: 

'But only poets

And children

Hear'                              

'More, Teddy!"

Our hero, Teddy
the Irish wolfhound,
speaking to the poet
in all of us:

'Alone
In a fierce winter storm
Nickel and Flora are brave
But afraid
A dog finds them
Teddy
Speaks words
And brings them to shelter                    

The Poet's cabin
Has light and food
And love
But where is the Poet?
Teddy will tell the story
Of how words make poems
And connect those who hear
Each other'                        
                                                   

surviving loss, recapturing love...
                                   our bookshelves need Teddy on them!

'And it will have a home among other lovely books we've reviewed for our young poets and our poetically young at heart', insists Tama

'Teddy's Sylvan will be waiting for Teddy on Rainbow Bridge, won't he, Tama' states Frosty

'yes, Frosty, that he will'
            Tama, purring. . .

The Legend of Rainbow Bridge
William N Britton
illustrated by
Dandi Palmer

'and we so love Anna Harper Freeman's
 'Love You More 
Than Anything', 
states Tama

Frosty: 'and we know her, too!'


illustrated by Jed Henry

HERSHEL and the HANUKKAH GOBLINS  

by Eric Kimmel                      

illustrated by 
Trina Schart Hyman

'we're so fortunate to have our Hershel's', says Tama
'and our Teddy's!' adds Frosty


noble assistants, you have more than earned your treats. . . let's go have them!
A chorus of meows among our very fondest goodbye's 


see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen
                                                                                             
                                                                                                              darylayaz@gmail.com
                                                                                                                                               

homes for our poems...(and a visit from Angelee Deodhar's Catty Wagon!)

assistant editor Tama: 'quote from a cat named Pindar':             

'The poet who knows
knows much 
in his own nature'
Frosty: 'Pindar must be a 
Siamese, those cats know 
all about themselves'

umm, ok, noble assistant
editors, let's move 
into our post. . .
                                       worthy homes for our poems

this'n from Colorado's
own Cold Mountain
denizen, p l wick:


Cheap Seats 
Ticket To Ride

'yes', says Tama,
'we had some difficulty trying 
to create a clear
image- but!
poets can always
email p l wick- 
expect an 
intriguing flow
of thoughts, ideas
and poetry!':
p l wick
Cheap Seats
Ticket to Ride:

Canyon.Wren@Q.com

Tama and Frosty: 'hurrah! editor Karen O'leary! the nicest poetry editor we know, and she has such a gracious heart!'
Whispers in the Wind           karenoleary1956@gmail.com
whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com
Whispers in the Wind, perhaps the nicest people and poets we have. . .

Marianne Szlyk, poems and flash fiction inspired by music, art, and nature, her blog-zine: The Song Is. . .  Any length, previously published fine.  Send your poetry to thesongis@gmail.com  

                     http://thesongis.blogspot.com
'music, art, and poetry! treats for kitties!' (assistant ed. Frosty)

'

 The Roaring Muse  https://roaringmuse.com/   hart0568@d.umn.edu
above, a pathway to Duluth, Minnesota, home of The Roaring Muse 
                
                                                       
Kind of a Hurricane Press    founder A J Huffman states 'we will do it all!', and they are, online and print: anthologies, best of, reviews, poetry chapbooks (one of mine, Rain in the Night Wind, soon to be released), et al., numerous publications including haiku to High Coupe, also Pyrokinection, Jellyfish Whispers, Mind[less]Muse, numerous honors for deserving poems/poets, be there soon as possible with your best! (oops, just found out Kind of a Hurricane Press is no more,
how sad!  Wishing A J Huffman all good things...)

EgoPHobia   www.egophobia.ro

'Until recently only Romanians were involved in this project, almost the whole site is in Romanian, but we encourage the submission of English texts, which can be published mainly in the “English” section, and also in other sections. We plan the translation of some other parts of the site into English. As the e-zine brings no income, we are sorry to announce that the contributions cannot be remunerated. The texts must be sent via e-mail to egophobia@gmx.net as .rtf or .txt attachments.'

tama:  three we love, even with 

about a year between accepted

poems and their publication. . .

Lilliput Review, ed. Don Wentworth

(a most favorite poet, also)

282 Main Street

Pittsburgh, PA  15201

much more online at Issa's Untidy Hut

Barbaric Yawp

3700 County Route 24

Russell, New York 13684

go to BoneWorld Publishing for further info.

ed. John Berbrich  ataraxia1114@aim.com

Lalitamba

submissions by mail to:

Lalitamba

P.O. Box 131

Planetarium Station

New York, New York  10024       info@lalitamba.org

a print publication lovely and filled with 

heart, our poems between it's covers is, indeed, 

an honor

Tama:  'We all need to visit (and submit) to Ascent often because it's just loverly':
Friday's poems will be published weekly.  Submissions are now open.
Send your poems to ascentaspirations@shaw.ca

www.ascentaspirations.ca                                                
Nanoose Bay, British Columbia

Frosty, excited, yelling 'look who's here!  

It's Angelee Deodhar and her Catty Wagon - and it's filled 

with treats for kitties!'

Welcome, Angelee, so good to see you!

'and the Catty Wagon!', insists Frosty

so, we are far from through sharing publications, print and online, that we hope will become homes for your poems... but, for now...
betcha Angelee has a few treats for humans, too!

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen

                       darylayaz@gmail.com  and/or  darylayaz@me.com

our worthy poetry! places/faces for our poems. . .

chosen by bear creek haiku's assistant editors Frosty and Tama

'that's us!  guess which is Frosty, and have a poem
            published in the next issue of bear creek haiku. . .'

Shemom

a real sweetheart
of print poetry pub's, 

send poetry to

Peggy Dugan French

pdfrench@cox.net

(or) 

Shemom

2486 Montgomery Ave.

Cardiff, California

92007

Imitation Fruit Literary Journal does wonders with poetry- www.imitationfruit.com           eva@imitationfruit.com

Eva Barrows, editor  ('and she has some wonderful kitty-cats!')

here's one of ours, and how she published and enhanced it. . .

                                                        artist Chalsea Walton

poet Catfish McDaris and Craig Scott have created 

a brand new poetry publication, 

                                   22-5

                    a print zine, 3-4 times a year 

                                              now seeking your poems!

'work that opens eyes and minds. work that makes you stop; catches your breath; 
makes you see the world in a new way. strange/experimental. honest. raw. original.'

                 https://twentytwofivezine.wordpress.com

          Wild Plum - a haiku journal

wow, this online haiku and haiga poetry publication is simply

beautiful (and has been for a long time). . .

perhaps the loveliest online haiku site we have? ('what took us so

long to discover it?', muses Frosty)

ed. Gabriel Sawicki                      wildplumhaiku@gmail.com

                              at the hayfield's edge

                              calm presence from a woodland

                              scent of aging green

                                                    (Tama's haiku)

       

        The Roaring Muse  https://roaringmuse.com/

brand new print pub. from Duluth, Minnesota

         a very favorite city: our family used to visit Duluth

and watch kids race home-made go-carts (no engines)

down Duluth's steep city streets toward Lake Superior

        classic scenery, blended with classic wipeouts

        'a bit cold and windy in the winter', Tama suggests,

        "and, a beautiful city. . .   and a beautiful publication. . .
                          hart0568@d.umn.edu          

                                             

                                                        Duluth, Minnesota

The Pink Chameleon on Line

http://www.thepinkchameleon.com  accepting poetry until Oct.31,

a family-orineted small press, ed. Mrs. Dorothy Paula Frieda:

         dpfreda@juno.com      Tama: 'and a nice lady"

                      middle of the night

                      a thoughtful, radiant wife

                      what might you say now

                      years so quickly pass by

                      in this festival of us

 Episteme online journal of Bharat College of Arts and Commerce 

                          Kulagon, Badlapur, India

these worthy folk present/display the poets/poetry they accept for

publication honorably and with dignity - from their journal: 

and there's something extra special about sharing poetic space with those whose very names are poetic, ("and lovely", states Tama), such as Deepika Rani, Jumagul Suvonova, Khosiyat Rustamova

Up to three unpublished poems, short third-person bio., a passport-

sized photo (mine wasn't, they accepted it anyway) to: 

                    technicaleditor@episteme.net.in

check out their website, partially to make sure I've listed what few details there are correctly - this submission period closes Nov. 11th

                                                  http://www.episteme.net.in

The Stray Branch Literary Magazine

'Shorter poems, edgy, darker material written, reflecting the heart & human condition known as existence, includes depression, mental illness, loss, sorrow, addiction, recovery, abuse, survival, daily existence, self struggles & discovery through words. Personal, confessional poems are welcomed & embraced here, rhyming poems okay, up to 6 poems in the body of the email or an attachment, no simultaneous submissions, previously published are fine.'

                    thestraybranchlitmag@yahoo.com

                                    founder/editor Debbie Berk

               poet, artist, dear friend Rex Sexton's Heartbreak Hotel:

                        

Rex Sexton was a deep presence 

in The Stray Branch

'and how we miss him', 

state noble assistants 

Tama, how many more poetry publications, print and online,
do we want ('need', says Frosty)
to share with our friends?

'fifteen' -
heavens, not even to 

bear creek haiku, nor Whispers in the Wind,  Kind of a Hurricane
or Cheap Seats or the Romanian Pub. EgoPHobia

'Frosty', asks Tama, 'what do we know about Romania?'

'it's where the word romance comes from', Frosty's reply

umm, noble assistants, let's save the rest for
the post we'll create in a few days
                             it's time for treats!
                                                     (chorus of meows)

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen

                      darylayaz@gmail.com (and/or) darylayaz@me.com