Klaus-Dieter Wirth: Linguist and Promoter

St. Valentine's Day
at the end of the line
an audible smile

Awarded as "favorite haiku" in "Modern Haiku" Vol 35.3, 2004




dreary afternoon
a carp in the park pond snaps
at a speck of sun

Special prize in the "Genkissu! Spirit up! World Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest 2006"



curtain of beads
the rustle
of filtered light

"Blithe Spirit" Vol 20, No 2, June 2010

Klaus-Dieter Wirth, living alternately in Viersen near Düsseldorf and at Burg, a village of wine-growers on the Moselle. Retired linguist in the teaching profession (English, French, Spanish). First contact with the haiku in 1967. Working for the promotion of haiku on an international level. Membership in several haiku societies (D, GB, NL/B, F, USA, CDN) and active collaboration on different journals, esp. "Sommergras", "Blithe Spirit", "Gong", "Chrysanthemum", and "Whirligig". Numerous publications in magazines and anthologies; awarded in several different competitions. Just out his quadrilingual haiku book "Zugvögel/Migratory Birds/Oiseaux migrateurs/Aves migratorias".  

Klaus-Dieter Wirth's DHG-member-page

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