Claudia Brefeld: Author and Photographer

holidays end--

only the motion of the sea

in the driving mirror

The Mainichi Daily News – Best of 2009

old stream--

the moon floats into

the blue hour

The Heron’s Nest – XVIII (1) 2011

dust-blind glass –
her hands searching

forgotten closeness

Chrysanthemum 8/2010

Claudia Brefeld – born 1956 in Gronau (NRW), lives in Bochum. She has written lyrics (and short stories) for many years and haiku and aphorism since 2003. Moreover she writes tan-renga, renku and rengay. Nature photography is also on the list of her hobby priorities. Her haiku and haiga have been published in anthologies and in such magazines as: Albatross, Chrysanthemum, Mainichi Daily News, Notes from the Gean, Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, WHC-German, WHA-Haiga-Contest. SOMMERGRAS, and other… She is the second chairwoman of the German Haiku Society, and founding member and secretary to the board of the German Aphorism Archive.

www.artgerecht-und-ungebunden.de/
homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Claudia.Brefeld/



Rudi Pfaller: "I Always Discover New Things"

silent night
a nut drops
from the moon

Mainichi Daily News 04-12-2006

brimstone butterfly
the sun
gets wings

Mainichi Daily News Best of 2010

 Autumn gale
every leaf
hunts leaves

Rudi Pfaller was born in 1949, and with his wife and his dog he lives in the valley of Rems nearby Stuttgart. He has been writing haiku since 2006. He says: “Since that time I try to reveal the secret about this short poetry and I always discover new things.”

Heike Gewi: Writing Became a Life Style

still not tired

to give -

apricot tree

Heron's Nest, Dec. 2010

wisdom of growing old

the koi moves

to a deeper level

Notes from the Gean, March 2011

fog

on cathedral glass

a man I can name

The Mainichi Daily News, May 10th 2011

Heike Gewi: born in Dessau/Saxony-Anhalt in 1964, living and working in Aden (Republic of Yemen), writing Haiku since 2007 and painting again after a 25-years-break since autumn 2010. She says: “Writing became a life style and doing so there is no imagination without highlightening some moments of our lives or giving answers in designed crime fictions to the question What if? ...“

www.heikegewi.keepfree.de

                                                                                                       

Gerd Börner: Short Poetry and Short Prose

 
In the stairwell ...
your smile
already at the top

“Hinterhofhitze. Moderne Kurzlyrik - Haiku und Haibun“, Ideedition Berlin, 2005


autumn sun
skipping the shadows
along the trees

“Offene Ferne. Kurzlyrik und Kurzprosa“, Ideedition Berlin, 2008


at the edge of summer
going more slowly
through the rain

Haikuscope: Kurzgedicht der Woche 40. KW 2010

Gerd Börner: born in 1944, studied electrical engineering, lives today as lyric poet in Berlin, member of the editorial staff of the Poetry-Portal “Haikuscope” and “Chrysanthemum”. Publications: “Hinterhofhitze. Moderne Kurzlyrik - Haiku und Haibun“, Ideedition Berlin, 2005, “Offene Ferne. Kurzlyrik und Kurzprosa“, Ideedition Berlin, 2008. Own website with spoken short poetry and short prose:

www.ideedition.de 

Helga Stania – Born in Siegen, lives in Switzerland

spring wind

softly locking the door

of my parents' home

Asahi, April 30th, 2009

Rose of Sharon

the blue shimmer

of distant roads

Notes from the Gean,  December 1st, 2010

boundery stones

on the old battlefield

melting snow

Mainichi, May 13th, 2011

Helga Stania was born in Siegen, Germany, in 1946, graduated in biology and geography (from Universität Bonn), now residing in Switzerland.

member's site at German Haiku Society
member's site "Haiku heute"