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The Wise Owl

Literary. Creative. Aesthetic.

A Monthly Online magazine

Daily Verse

Week 4, August 2024

Image by Debby Hudson

Haiku on Pause & Reflection
byGovind Joshi 26th Aug 2024

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park bench
slow drift
of the clouds

unfolding a taro leaf on a rainy evening.jpg

unfolding
a taro leaf
monsoon evening

rearranging sofas with rain clouds in the window.jpg

rearranging furniture
upstairs
rumbling clouds

Image by Aliis Sinisalu

Haiku

by Deborah Bennett 27th August 2024

sunrise in the fog.jpg

sunrise in the fog -

to scatter the old darkness

to bind up the storm

peaches on a towel with the moon peeping through the window.jpg

midnight peaches

in a blue tea bowl -

waning crescent moon

a lady weaving grass on the porch with the moon shining down.jpg

braiding sweet grass

on the front porch stoop -

full flower moon

Image by Jan Mellström

Micro Poems on Pause & Reflect

By Vijay Prasad 28th August 2024

taste
the palate of void
her many tongues

gradually i am thinging inside the thing that things

between
i and the gaze –
nothing

pause the space of neither

past & present.jpg

a former present preservers itself in the now

hotoke :
i fold the wind
and become nothing

Image by Element5 Digital

Haiku on Pause & Reflect

By Maurizio Brancaleoni 29th August 2024

cars on the road.jpg

motionless hoverflies —
all the cars
have a destination

air conditioning —
a computer that
nobody touches

two old men in a cafe.jpg

two old men at the café —

another day

to talk to oneself

Haiku

By Giuliana Ravaglia 30th August 2024

wandering beside a lake gleaming under the evening sun.jpg

quiet on the lake -

of my restless wandering

only glimmers

dawn of a new day.jpg

and yet it returns

among reddish clouds

a new day

a little girl running in a garden blooming with summer flowers.jpg

barefoot

I'm still chasing you

my young summer

Biographies of Poets

Govind Joshi is a mariner and navigates ships around the world for a living. He lives in Dehradun, India and loves nature, gardening, travel and poetry. His Japanese short form poetry has been published in many fine print and online journals including Frogpond, Presence, cattails and chrysanthemum.

Deborah A. Bennett i s an American poet whose poetic work consists mostly of haiku and senryu. Her poems have most recently appeared in Acorn Haiku, Fresh Out Magazine and The Mamba, Journal of the Africa Haiku Network.

Vijay Prasad is a poet from Patna, India. He is disappointingly interested in life. He has a passion for haiku, language, philosophy, and so on ... He is published in Bones, Under the Basho, tinywords, Failed Haiku, The Mumba Journal, Haiku Dialogue, Prune Juice, among others.

Maurizio Brancaleoni lives near Rome, Italy. He is a writer and a translator from English and German. From 2011 onwards, his poems/haiku/short stories/pastiches in Italian and English have appeared in a great number of journals, anthologies and blogs. He manages “Leisure Spot“, a bilingual e-space where he posts interviews, reviews and literary gems:

Giuliana Ravaglia was born in the province of Bologna (Italy), is a former primary school teacher and has a great love for poetry, especially haiku. His poems have been published on websites and online magazines: Otata, Troutswirl, ESUJ-H, Asahi Haikuist Network, The Mainichi, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Haikuuniverse, Cold Moon Journal, Akita International Haiku Network, The Bamboo Hut, Take 5ive, Haiku Corner, Memoirs of a Geisha, HaikuNetra, Haiku World, Failed Haiku among others. he received Honorable mention in Haiku EuroTop 100

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