He is a correspondent school teacher of Haiku in English for the Asahi Culture Center in Tokyo. At the Graduate School he supervises students who research haiku. McMurray is professor of intercultural studies at The International University of Kagoshima where he lectures on international haiku. He is on the editorial board of the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, columnist for the Haiku International Association, and is editor of Teaching Assistance, a column in The Language Teacher of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). You are invited to send a haiku on a topic that you think G-7 leaders should resolve, by postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or e-mail to * *ĭavid McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News. The next issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network appears on May 19. Tomislav Maretic worried about an old home in Zagreb, Croatia. Mariya Gusev overheard an unrequited greeting in Arlington, Virginia. After a visit from her granddaughter, Joanne van Helvoort looked forlornly at a playground in the small seaside town of Beerta in The Netherlands. Kanematsu observed a group of children walk up to look at an intriguing “jizo” Buddhist statue of a guardian deity for children and travelers.Įugeniusz Zacharski gently swayed back and forth between the trees in Radom, Poland. Wai Mei Wong, a former early childhood educator, was disappointed to see garbage strewn where she walks in Toronto, Ontario. Yutaka Kitajima voiced the thoughts of a disappointed grandmother in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture. Noel King was aghast to spot where the children spilled Ballymaloe relish in Tralee, Ireland. Xenia Tran offered this subconscious thought about the coronation from Nairn, Scotland.Īlan Summers recalled cherry blossom trees lining his late mother’s street in Chippenham, England.įarah Ali knows what children are hoping to see in Brighton, England. Writing from Edinburgh, Scotland, James Roderick Burns spotted an early sign. Anne-Marie McHarg prepared champagne for coronation day in London, England. Tomorrow, the Archbishop of Canterbury will crown Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom. Nani Mariani applied makeup in Melbourne, Australia. Kanematsu watched a lucky man being chased in a naked festival (“hadaka matsuri”) held at Konomiya shrine in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture.Īljosa Vukovic wore appropriate attire for an occasion in Croatia, Sibenik.
Tonight, Simone Pansolin can watch a shadow’s path during a lunar eclipse over Genoa, Italy: naked in backlight the curvature of the earth Govind Joshi stopped at a red traffic light in Dehradun, India. Lilia Racheva felt at home again in Rousse, Bulgaria. Ramona Linke and her family love the friendly neighborhood of Beesenstedt, Germany. Jennifer Gurney swayed in Broomfield, Colorado. Zeljko Funda dreamed while on vacation in Varazdin, Croatia. Horning drove her car to a secluded cul-de-sac near the beach in St.
Marshall Hryciuk couldn’t find a spot to set up his tent north of Toronto, Ontario. Junko Saeki in Japan, Monica Kakkar in India, and Eugeniusz Zacharski in Poland, respectively, played outside all day long. Satoru Kanematsu reunited with his family in Nagoya today, Children’s Day. Kath Abela Wilson (Pasadena, California) Kumari Handapangoda (Colombo, Sri Lanka) In the gaze of daisies children’s tears dry
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