Ed Bremson News Today

Knowing where the snow melts wild crocus--Helga Stania (Ettiswil, Switzerland)

Retreating sun--a farmer’s shuffling steps through wheatfields--John Zheng (Ittabena, Mississippi)

Empty nest... my home is a house for sale--Tsanka Shishkova (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Even in this storm, the river flows into the sea

Unusually quiet morning a crow caws thrice--Jerome Berglund (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Carpark in Moll de la Fusta the old man waiting for his youth--Isabella Kramer (Nienhagen, Germany)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear Aug. 6 and 20. Readers are invited to send haiku about a canoe or a sailboat, on a postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or by e-mail to (mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp). * * * David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News....

under the trees and bamboo enough for the birds Tsanka Shishkova’s uphill climb was fruitful, leading her to write this line: the scent of spring plums on the hill. Stephen Toft wrote this one-liner about whispering to cattle in Lancaster, U.K.: spring blossom i sing to the bull. Wade German made a pilgrimage in Delta, British Columbia. spring snow... to master’s shrine Vladislav Hristov bowed under an old, bent evergreen in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Realizing that Jesus of Nazareth may have been ...