photo: Martin G. Wienert, and again Zeche Zollverein (2009)





"In summer, the song sings itself."
(William Carlos Williams)





William Carlos Williams:
http://tinyurl.com/nfxal9

photo: Martin G. Wienert, Zeche Zollverein (2009)

click on the photo to see it large






last day of June
I've found a shady place
for my dreams
(AW, 2009)







to the photo: what you see above is a skating rink in winter
http://tinyurl.com/m7ollf

informations about Zeche (coal mine) Zollverein:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/975

photo: Martin G. Wienert; castle Dyck, new gardens (2009) 

Summer day.

What is the name of 

this peculiar plant?

(AW, June 2009)

 

photo: Martin G. Wienert; roses in the park of castle Dyck (2009)





scent of roses --
two old ladies whispering
at the corner
(AW; Mainichi, September 2003)






about castle Dyck:
http://www.rhein-kreis-neuss.de/en/themen/schloss_dyck.html



castle Dyck near the town Neuss in North Rhine Westfalia --
on the map (link below) you'll find the town Neuss and my hometown Oberhausen (Oberhausen, on the map in the North):
http://tinyurl.com/mu3xvw

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Duisburg Nord (2009)




"My reflection...
remembering the name
of the stream"

(Vincent Tripi, see the links below)




http://tinyurl.com/ntgp72

http://tinyurl.com/mrvlej

photo: Martin G. Wienert (me in London)


No, I wasn't in London last weekend ...

Above you see a photo from last year. But I enjoyed it to follow a conference in London -- via twitter, last Saturday. I thought that it would be a good time for someone who loves short poetry and it really was a good time.

Here more about this conference (Tate Modern, London):

"Shortness
A very short conference and a very long dinner

Saturday 20 June 2009, 14.00–21.30

14.00–17.00 symposium 18.00–21.30 dinner in the East Room"

"In short, this event brings together practitioners and theoreticians of the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal manifestations..."

"...The short conference is followed by a long dinner in Tate Modern's East Room. Dinner guests will be entertained by short speeches and the whole event is supplemented by short films, performances and various intervention..."

http://tinyurl.com/pmpbuf

http://tinyurl.com/mzudof

See here the panel discussion (and in the background twitter).

http://twitpic.com/7wi2x

What a view!

http://twitpic.com/7wwtk

twitter:

https://twitter.com/short_at_tate


youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK38SuxZx7c

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park (2009)





old smokestack, dark walls...
I'm a dwarf
in Metropolis
(AW, 2009)





Metropolis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)


trailer
http://tinyurl.com/mkos93

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Grugapark Essen (June 2009)




Corpus Christi -
over the highway
with hymns


Fronleichnam -
über die Schnellstraße
mit Kirchenliedern

(AW, WKD 2005)



http://tinyurl.com/2qj8de

photo: Martin G. Wienert, roses in the Grugapark (June 2009)


http://www.grugapark.de/im-park.html



A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn
A flask of Dew - A Bee or two
A Breeze - a caper in the trees
And I'm a Rose!

(Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Stiftung Insel Hombroich (2009) 

behind 

the glass door 

the path into spring (AW, 2009)

http://www.inselhombroich.de/karte.htm

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Langen Foundation, Neuss (May 2009)




the sound of silence
is all the instruction
you'll get
(Jack Kerouac)



http://www.langenfoundation.de/?L=1

photo: Martin G. Wienert; the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park (May 2009)


former smelting works
a victorious conqueror
this green
(AW, May 2009)

http://www.landschaftspark.de/en/derpark/index.html

photo: Martin G. Wienert, at our pond in April 2009




hi, bumble bee!
let's work and hum
side by side!
(AW, April 2009)



And today the long expected rain! Our garden is so fresh now! Lovely!

photo: Martin G. Wienert






First page―
a man's empty hands
the earthquake

(AW, Asahi 2004)








"an earthquake hit L'Aquila and other towns in central Italy,..."
(BBC, April 6, 2009)

"Italy Earthquake Kills 150, Leaves Thousands Homeless"
(Bloomberg.com, April 6, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, bamboo grove (2007)



lent --
the cross not yet
veiled

(AW, March 2009)


http://caribbeankigo.pbwiki.com/Caribbean-Kigo-Kukai-Results

I loved to participate. Thank you, dear Gillena!

photo: Martin G. Wienert, spring 2008

nearly daybreak

the salt spreader returns

from the highway

Angelika Wienert (Oberhausen, Germany)

(Mainichi Japan) March 25, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/d42pxz

private note:

I miss you all but I've not much time for poetry in the moment! Sorry!

photo: Martin G. Wienert



Ein schöner Tag!
Heute traf hier Post aus Finnland ein! Haiku aus Finnland!

What a nice day!
Today I received a letter from Finland! And haiku!




Und nun sitze ich hier ... Und übersetze ...
And now I sit here and I try to translate ..



syksy majassani --
kylmä päivä
kylmä yö

(Issa; in: Kogarashi, S. 28, editor: Juhani Tikkanen)




autumn (but what means majassani?) --
cold day
cold night


Herbst (majassani ?) --
kalter Tag
kalte Nacht




a day later:
I still look for "majassani" -- perhaps Juhani will comment, then we will know ...


please read the comments, read what Juhani (Tikkis) wrote, it`s so interesting!

photo: Martin G. Wienert


Heute traf hier Post aus Finnland ein! Finnische Haiku!
Today a letter from Finland! A letter and haiku!


Und nun versuche ich zu übersetzen ...
And now I try to translate ...

koivu = Birke/birch

tuuli = Wind/wind

talven = Winter/winter

katolla = Dach/roof

etc.


syksy majassani --
kylmä päivä
kylmä yö

photo: Martin G. Wienert (December 2007)







crusted snow
so weak
the sun and I

(AW, January 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; aralia elata in winter (Jan. 2009)









Cold day --
the fingers more stiff
this year

(AW; Mainichi, January 2005)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; January 5th 2009






Ssh!
The kois dream
under the ice

(AW, January 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Baltic Sea, Christmas 2008





first day of the year
the ice fisher wears
a new cap
(AW, January 2009)


first published here:
Lunch Break

12 days of Christmas

http://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/2009/01/12-days-of-christmas-day-eight-nine.html



and another version (a good suggestion in a haiku-forum):

new year ...
the ice fisher wears
a new cap

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Baltic Sea, Christmas 2008

Fresh air! ...
Coldness! ...How wonderful! ...





hot flash
I need no feather bed
this winter

(AW, Dec. 2008)

arrival--departure--arrival--departure--arrival ...








departure lounge
a boy chats with his
plastic dinosaur

(AW, November 2008)











a boy (9 years old) from Austria painted this:


http://www.dinosaurier-interesse-2.de/web/Bilder/Bilder-Ki/2007/wolfram02.gif

dull day dia sombrio dull day dia sombrio dull day dia sombrio

Dull day -
orphan-home
needs paint

(AW)

Dia sombrio -
o orfanato
precisa de pintura

(AW; translation: Rosa Clement, Brazil)






published some years ago

here more:

http://www.sumauma.net/haijins/haiku-angelika.html

photo: Martin G. Wienert, autumn 2008 (gleditsia triacanthos sunburst)



Britisches Museum.
Chinesen betrachten
chinesische Jade

(AW; Haiku heute, Oktober 2008)



British Museum
Chinese visitors gaze at
Chinese jade

(AW, September 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, gleditsia triacanthos sunburst, Oct. 2008 in our garden





business quarter --
a brand new car
dented by hail
(AW, October 2008)






Autumn 2008
A financial crisis in a globalized world, a global crisis.
Panicked investors, scared depositors.
Emergency meetings, rescue plans ...
And it goes on ...

photo: Martin G. Wienert, stone buddha in our garden









Buddha smiles --
high in the tree
a black white quarrel

(AW, September 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; London, September 2008






my autumnal garden
the plants understand
even unsaid words

(AW, Sept. 2008)





yesterday evening I returned from London

I love plants and the owners of this house (photo) seem to be plant lovers too

Hagebutte/rose hip/youth/Jugend/Hagebutte/rose hip






the youth hostel
rose hip tea
in a battered jug

(AW, September 2008)








Hagebuttentee
in der Jugendherberge,
die Kanne zerbeult

(AW, September 2008; fotohaiku)

mountainsBergeTunneltunnelAlpsAlpentrainZug



the Alps
our train stops
in the tunnel

(AW, Sept. 2008)






Über die Alpen...
Der Zug hält irgendwo
im Tunnel

(AW, Haiku heute, Febr. 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, Ginkgo Biloba (2007)




The end of summer?
Come on, let`s ask
the leaves!

(AW, 2008)



p.s.: I changed the punctuation later (line 3, exclamation point) -- thank you, Gabi (Gabi Greve, Japan)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; old city hall, Bamberg (2008)




old city hall
the watercolor painter
starts with the bridge

(AW, July 2008)






after a workshop-discussion
here another version (July 31st)

Bamberg city hall
the watercolorist starts
with the bridge

photo: Martin G. Wienert, Bamberg (July 2008)




no bombs
some say that the fog
saved Bamberg

(AW, July 2008)




but some say that Empress Kunigunde (Saint Kunigunde) had saved the city

photo: Martin G. Wienert; cheese (July 2008)




cheese shop
the customer brings in
a wave of fresh air

(AW, July 2008)



result of a haiku-workshop

The Taste of Green

"Another piece..."

"You`ll be a frog in your next life," my son says. Then, he croaks.

I don`t care about the future. Here and now – the special taste of matcha cheese cake. Matcha – the fine, powdered green tea, which is used for the tea ceremony! Our Japanese guide tells us what we will do tomorrow and leaves us.

Around the corner

a moss-covered path

leads to the Buddha

(author: Angelika Wienert; first published in: Haibun Today, May 23, 2008)

.

senryû




goal!
the new neighbour
has a voice



Tor!
Der neue Nachbar
hat eine Stimme


(AW, June 2008)






Austria : Germany

0 : 1

but it goes on...(European Football Championship)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; iris, June 2008





senryû

footbath
the old man hums
a chanty

(AW, June 2008)

Piazza Tale

As always: for my husband red wine, for me white wine.

"When I was young, strangers complimented me."

"What was your last sentence, honey?"

"Strangers made compliments in my youth."

"Often?"

"No, not often. I was shy and had to wear glasses."

"A lot of women have to wear glasses."

"I was too stupid to recognize that I was quite pretty then. Today photos tell me that..."

"Salmon or lamb chops? Or better the vegetarian dish?"

As always: no coffee after lunch.

We walk across the footbridge and reach the piazza.

Heat

the dog

opens one eye

(author: Angelika Wienert, first published in: Haibun Today, April 30, 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, rhododendron in our garden, 2008



FAIR WEATHER

tiny shoots
in the greenhouse –
I whisper

spring stroll
bedclothes airing
on windowsills

cherry blossoms
the jogger stops
to check his pulse

spring chill
tapping the barometer
one more time

(Angelika Wienert; LYNX, June 2008)

http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/232hmpg.html

ghazals, haibun, haiga, sequences, single poems...

photo: Martin G. Wienert, the stone turtle`s place in our garden (May 2008)

on the eve of Pentecost
no wind moves the leaves

(AW, May 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, peony in Wienert`s garden, 2008/Pfingstrose (Pfingsten = Pentecost)





Pentecost —
anthuriums glow
in the minster

(AW, Mainichi 2006)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, temple in Kyôto (2007)





burning incense
my eyes follow the smoke
upward

(AW, 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; street in Kyôto (2007)







old matcha bowls —
we share the memories
in silence

(AW, 2008)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; flowering ground cover in our garden




haiku-shelf needs a break

haiku-shelf braucht eine Pause


best wishes/herzliche Grüße,
Angelika

photo: Martin G. Wienert; white camellias (2008)





white camellias —
in the tree behind
a silent bird


Weiße Kamelien -
im Baum dahinter schweigt
ein Vogel

(AW, 2008)