Ingo Cesaro: Independent Author

Looking in vain for

blossoms of magnolia –

among the branches.

A feather in my

hand left behind from the bird.

I can see the wind.

No empty seats left

but autumn grants us fog-banks –

outside the chapel.

Ingo Cesaro, independent author, living in Kronach. More than eighty releases in haiku-style. One hundred publishings of bibliophile editions and international anthologies in haiku-style, partly with original artworks. Sponsorship by the German Haiku Society, member amongst others in German-Swiss P.E.N. and German Haiku Society.

http://www.ingo-cesaro.de/

Gert W. Knop: Author and Graphic Artist

last days of summer

leaves are dancing in the sun

a pair of ducks hide

quite after midnight

time disappears in silence

suddenly thunder

the song of a lark
so very slowly fading
after summer rain

Gert W. Knop, pseudonym: André Steinbach, born in 1943 in Darmstadt, Germany, lives and works in Zittau, Saxony as author and graphic artist. His poems and short stories have been published in various anthologies in Germany and online in the USA (www.poetrysoup.com). He received several awards for his graphic art and poetry. His latest haiku have been published in the anthology: “Es duftet nach Sonntag” (A Scent of Sunday), Literaturpodium and Dorante Edition, Berlin, 2011.

René Possél: Increasing Enthusiasm for Decreasing

sandy beach

so many hourglasses

time

swimming far out

the endless sea

at eye level

waves at the shore

telling excitedly

from distant ships

René Possél, born 1949 in Essen, studies in theology and philosophy in Bochum, Tübingen and Paris, ten years service in the church, actually vocational counselor at the Federal Employment Agency, part-time speaker in funeral services. Besides a reference book he published poems of varying types – grave for grave(-yard)-purposes, hilarious and humorous poems for everything else. Since the end of his fourties he is writing haiku – with increasing enthusiasm for decreasing words.

Simone K. Busch: Awareness Practice and Challenge

thunderstorm

passing carefully

water and salt

Asahi, July 1st, 2011

weighing words

all the way home

crescent moon

Notes from the Gean December 2011

kelp forest

all those creatures

inside me

A Hundred Gourds December 2011

Simone K. Busch, born 1965 in Berlin, currently living in Tokyo (Japan) with her family. She has a university degree in business administrations and is trained as a teacher for creative writing. Haiku and haiga since 2009. Member of the German Haiku Society. Her work is published by Sommergras, Haiku heute, Hamburger Haiku Verlag, Asahi Shimbun, Lynx, World Haiku Association monthly contest (Master Haiga Artist with Bea Bareis), Asahi Haikuist Column, Daily Haiga, Notes from the Gean, Haigaonline, A Hundred Gourds and others.

German Haiku Society: member's page
Simone K. Busch: blog

Horst Ludwig: Haiku and Tanka from Minnesota

The moon is somewhere

rising through the snowy night,

the Nibelung's ring.

Pentecost morning

visiting the eldest son

who's now on his own

Autumnal evening.

The shadow following me

is getting longer.

    "Haiku Wall", Quarterly National HSA Meeting, Bend, Oregon, 2011

Horst Ludwig is em. Professor of German at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, U.S.A. Further biographical notes: 

Simply Haiku 2003

Simply Haiku 2006