Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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First
5 haiku from the anthology Under the Same Moon.
Ukrainian news
my dead father orders me
to pay attention
Myron Lysenko
once a hunter
my father rescues
drowning bees
Jahan Tyson
sitting on a bench
the silence
of passing time
Franҫoise Maurice
Zoom starts recording . . .
the presenter’s cat
presents
Michael J. Leach
lazy Sunday
Sasha on the sofa
grooms one paw
Lynette Arden
Haiku on the ruzzian invasion of Ukraine
Black Forest Smoke
Poetry and music band based in Woodend, Victoria, Australia.
CURRENT LINE-UP: David Crosbie mandolin, resonator. Brendan Tyrrell bass, backing vocals, guitar. Michael Robinson guitar, ukulele, lead vocals. Myron Lysenko ukulele, washboard, spoken word.
Photos of the band performing in its various line-ups from 2013-2024.
Photo by Di Cousens at Chamber Poets, Woodend 2024.
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writers Blog
news of refugee
the oak leaf crushed
in my hand
by Myron Lysenko (Australia)
Modern Haiku, 47:1, 2016
lighthouse
they marry on the edge
of a cliff
by Myron Lysenko (Australia)
Creatrix, #24, March 2014
the toddler
points her finger upwards
falling maple leaf
by Myron Lysenko (Australia)
all poetry.com
Ukrainian Embroidery Day 19 May 2023
Myron, Zaidee, Mara, Luca in front of a portrait of patriarch Stepan Lysenko.
Festival of Surrealisms 2024
Roman Korchev, Myron Lysenko, Kevin Brophy, @ Temperance Hall, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Photographs by Ian Gostelow.
Ivan Head reviews ‘a ghost gum leans over’ in Quadrant
Portrait of Myron Lysenko by Isobel Clement, 1990s.
CHAMBER POETS 100th Celebration
Please join us to celebrate our 100th reading. We have assembled some of Victoria’s premier poets for this special event: TT.O., Andy Jackson, Kevin Brophy, Gayelene Carbis, Joe Dolce, Ross Donlon and Es Foong.
PLUS Open Section, and poetry band Black Forest Smoke.
Food and drink available. All welcome. 12.45 for a 1pm start.
Make the trip to beautiful Woodend and be excited by poetry and music.
Fringe Myrtles haiku group
After the success of last month’s public celebration of International Women’s Day featuring the famous Castlemaine writer Cate Kennedy, this month they will celebrate International Haiku Day by featuring the work of Melbourne haiku group Fringe Myrtles. Fringe Myrtles was formed in October 2019 and held its first meeting at Library at the Dock in Docklands. The group consists of some of the best published haiku poets in Australia and is led by Rob Scott who is also president of the Australian Haiku Society.
Fringe Myrtles is an assortment of haiku poets and enthusiasts who enjoy going outside with notebooks to write their poetry in scenic surrounds. They value collaboration, respect, friendship, and inclusiveness. Their mission is to create a supportive haiku community where all members can grow as writers. But ultimately, they wish to share their collective understanding of the various ways haiku can be written. There is more to haiku than just a seventeen syllable poem about nature.
A ‘fringe myrtle’ is a spectacular looking shrub found throughout Victoria which none of the members had actually seen before (they just liked the name). They have a Facebook Page for sharing haiku and related forms as well as having discussions and posting information about events, publications and competitions.
Fringe Myrtles held online meetings from April 2020 due to the social distancing regulations associated with the Corona virus. The theme of the first online meeting was to write haiku about the impact of Covid-19. So many of the haiku read at this meeting had a focus on what was missing during lockdown. Subsequent meetings via Zoom featured famous overseas and interstate guests including American Michael Dylan Welch and Tasmanian practitioners Lyn Reeves and Ron C. Moss.
Fringe Myrtles have conducted haiku workshops and public readings at various libraries and twice at events held at The Melbourne Immigration Museum, and this will be the second time they will feature at the Chamber Poets spoken word event in Woodend in celebration of International Haiku Day.
House band Black Forest Smoke will also entertain the audience by presenting haiku set to music, including their poignant composition titled Anzac Day. As the event precedes Anzac Day, writers and musicians are also encouraged to read their spoken word pieces (not necessarily haiku) or sing songs to commemorate those who suffer during and after wars. Everyone is welcome to come along to listen or to read.
Chamber Poets #87
Saturday 15 April, 2023. 1pm—4pm
Woodend RSL, 32 Anslow Street, Woodend
Entry $10/$5
Featuring:
FRINGE MYRTLES HAIKU GROUP
BLACK FOREST SMOKE
OPEN SECTION
Myron Lysenko 