Celestial Songs, Joan McNerney and Angelee Deodhar, Patricia Carragon and Matsuo Bashō, Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Dr. Ajša Zahirović, Susan Coleman, S. Liaqath Peeran, P. C. K. Prem, and, from everyone here at Bear Creek Haiku, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

from Joan McNerney and Angelee Deodhar...

from Patricia Carragon and Matsuo Bashō...

               from Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Bayside, New York...

                             SNOWY NIGHT HAIKU                            SNOWY DAYS HAIKU

                             On snowy nights we                                     On snowy days we

                             Gather around the fireplace                          Sledded down Salisbury Park

                             Toasting marshmallows.                               And chewed bubble gum.

                     

                                             HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

        From Dr. Ajša Zahirović, poet from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  

from noble assistant editors Tama and Frosty...   

and happy Kittiness to all!   

                    

from Susan Coleman...

noble assistant editor Kitty Kali...
"and a happy, warm home for kitties and all beings everywhere!"

from S. Liaqath Peeran, Bengaluru, INDIA...

Happy New Year 2019

Look at the resplendent Sun with new dress.

Shedding new light to humanity.

To wake them up from slumber.

To shed violence and adopt peace.

To love and give up hate.

Let the new rays of bright Sun.

Bring new light to one and all.

A new beginning, a new era.

A fresh breath, lovely seasons.

Plenty of fragrant flowers and sweet fruits.

Let the New Year 2019

Open to humanity peace, prosperity.

              from P. C. K. Prem, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA...

                                               WISH YOU ALL HAPPY DAYS AHEAD.

                       PRAY YOU STAY WELL, FIT AND CONTINUE TO SERVE POETRY.


and! from all of us here are at bear creek, Frosty, Tama, Kitty Kali, often obnoxious neighbor cat, from Judith and ayaz daryl...

Happy New Year!

melting into poetry, Paula Yup, t. kilgore splake, Peggy Dugan French and A. A. Milne, Brooklyn girl Patricia Carragon, cold and singing, Longmont girl Judith Partin-Nielsen, Angelee Deodhar, E. Martin Pedersen, Steve Ausherman, and! special treats! (and many of them!)

artist Paula Yup... 

                        from t. kilgore splake...

                               life's too short

                          dollars not buying time

                            write   write   write


       warm afternoon sun

      tiny   leaves   falling

      yellow autumn storm

      dark shadows dancing

        pine needles hum

     deep wilderness magic


from Peggy Dugan French and A. A. Milne...

from Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl...  

       window candlelight

       snowflake illumination

       on glass

                               under the chandelier

                               words turn

                               to crystal

            sleeping cat

            her calm 

            before the storm

         

from Judith Partin-Nielsen, our Longmont girl...

                    Winter Buddha

                    Statue of Buddha

                    sits peacefully

                    beside the front door

                    now wearing a crown

                    of freshly blown snow

from Angelee Deodhar and ayaz daryl nielsen...

                from E. Martin Pedersen, Messina, Italy...

        cat on the slippery                  I owe letters

        soapy bathtub rim                   to old friends and family --

        watches the bubbles sparkle        nonetheless I sing

                               birthday alone

                               I hug my guitar when

                               I should be hugging you

poet, artist, Steve Ausherman wishing us a new year of goodwill...

from noble assistant editors 

Frosty, Tama, and Kitty Kali...        

                                                                

a most mewtiful New Year for

all, and for all, special treats!  

    (and many of them!)

           

             see you in a moment...




             ayaz daryl nielsen

you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com (and/or)

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)

from Tony Burfield, Deborah P Kolodji, Carl Mayfield, Judith Partin-Nielsen, Rex Sexton, ayaz daryl nielsen, Kitty Kali and Mister Oinker, and, from all of us... see you in 2019!

from Tony Burfield, Lyons, Colorado...

                    two pond frogs             how to paint it--

                    i count all                  morning calm                   

                    the syllables

and, Deborah P Kolodji, Temple City, California...

                    campfire crackles          frog songs

                    another poke                by the creek bed

                    at the large log             our wine glasses

from Carl Mayfield, Rio Rancho, New Mexico...

from Judith Partin-Nielsen, Longmont, Colorado...

                                The Hope Of It

                                Where is the beauty, the Hope

                                in the horror of it, you ask.

                                Underneath a hard, bitter

                                casement of seed is there

                                an invisible bloom, a bud

                                not yet conceived --

                                a fragrance only in

                                the mind's eye.

                                Are we the Hope of it?

from Rex Sexton (missing you, Rex)  Lady and the Tramp...

from ayaz daryl nielsen...

from noble assistant editor Kitty Kali, "We need a bit more humor, Mister Editor, so!  This from our old friend Mister Oinker!"

assistant editor's Frosty and Tama...

and, from all of us at bear creek haiku...

    
see you in 2019!

from Tatjana Debeljacki, Joan McNerney and Angelee Deodhar, Peggy Dugan French and Mother Teresa, ayaz daryl nielsen, Rex Sexton, Barakat Gallery, Buddha, from all of us here at bear creek...

from Tatjana Debeljacki...

from Joan McNerney and Angelee Deodhar...

from Peggy Dugan French and Mother Teresa...

ayaz daryl nielsen...

from Rex Sexton...

from Barakat Gallery, Buddha's wish for our happiness...

and, from Frosty, Tama, Kitty Kali, often annoying neighbor cat, from Judith and Daryl- peace... love... surround and embrace each, all, and every one of us this Christmas Eve, this Christmas Day, and all this New Year...

 see you in a moment...

Teresinka Pereira, Susan Coleman, Rex Sexton, Angelee Deodhar and Dennis Rhodes, ayaz daryl nielsen, and, Mother Teresa...

SEASONS GREETINGS  from Teresinka Pereira...

          Hope is a dream

          hanging from a branch

          of the Christmas tree

          with personal secrets

          which resist the passing

          of the time and

          each year comes back        

          to do its mission.

          We wish you

          the flower of dreams

          open and prosperous

          all year long.

          Happy 2019!

..................

from Susan Coleman...

artist Rex Sexton: noble assistant editor Tama, "We miss you, Rex"...

from Angelee Deodhar, with Dennis Rhodes, and!
noble assistant editor Frosty:  "We love you, Angelee"...

from ayaz daryl nielsen...

Mother Teresa...

                        

see you in a moment


  
ayaz daryl nielsen

you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com (and/or)

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)

Don Wentworth and Joy McCall's TOUCHING THE NOW, plus!! a touch of Walt Whitman, Peggy Dugan French and Karen O'Leary, Carl Mayfield, a Native American Proverb, and, Tuharan...

assistant editors Frosty and Tama       are kitty-elated:

"We've heard from Don Wentworth (the infamous Lilliput Review Don Wentworth), one of our very first

mentors (we're not sure if bear creek haiku would exist without his support years ago)- immersed in creative flurries and fur-balls, his new collection of poems is co-written/co-authored with the equally impressive (and friend of many fine kitties) Joy McCall...

this from ms. SHEMOM herself, Peggy Dugan French-

and, Peggy Dugan French and Karen O'Leary co-create...

         adventure over –

               gritty bestseller

               back on the shelf  

             "dime store" novel…

               easy to forget

"Obviously." states assistant editor Kitty Kali, "an adventure without a kitty protagonist..."

Carl Mayfield, Rio Rancho, New Mexico...

Adventures Gone with the Whistle

                           for five years
                           I rode the freight trains

                           preparing my acceptance speech
                           for a prize yet to be created

                           for deeds unimagined
                           a life fully lived

                           in the underbelly of America

                           where to ride
                           or whither away

                           is all the same
                           to starlight

                           on the rails


Haiku

                           living alone
                                   her porch light on
                           just in case


                           scaled quail
                                 single file--
                               unchartered crosswalk


                           our shadows
                                       homeless
                                 without the sun


from Peggy Dugan French's FRIDAY POEMS:

Tuharan...

               That Angel Talked Like a Sailor

               What part of heaven did she come from?
                     That angel talked like a sailor 
                           and she was dressed
                                enchantingly
                                    scant.

                  I can't even repeat the things she said,
              or picture once more the shape of her breasts.
                          Though I know one thing:
                             My fear of dying has
                                    vanished.

  see you in a moment



   ayaz daryl nielsen

you can mail your poetry to:

                bear creek haiku

                PO Box 596

                Longmont, CO

                80502   

                USA   

                (SASE's are appreciated)

From other than the USA, email to darylayaz@gmail.com (and/or)

                  darylayaz@me.com (include postal address)

Last!  If you choose to send poetry via email from within the US,

                                    that's ok, too (again, include postal address)