the blue blizzard

The  Blue Blizzard

wolf moon
how tiny snowmen
save the world

snow and more snow
new wrinkles around
my eyes 

frost nights
your smile doesn't reach
your eyes

snow-covered sails
the line you never cross
with me

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on the way

on the way

migratory birds—

if the longing isn't enough

a swan's feather

all that remains

longing

fills my heart

by their voices

migratory birds

the huge distances

we can only

overcome together

flying wild geese

longing — deep written inside my DNA migratory cranes 

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Happy 250th Birthday

Happy 250th Birthday 

Jane Austen year

still dealing with things

I wrote about

morning mist 

your Mr. Darcy's smile

finally found me 

Winchester Cathedral

a short look on her grave

the bus doesn't wait

full moon at Hampshire

the irreparable crack
in my heart

Netherfield

the echo of my sister laughing

finds me 

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June beetle's humming

June beetle's humming

sun-freckles your strawberry kiss round and round 

strawberry moon

right into my illusions

an owl's call

thimble dreams
my wounded soul
becomes a rose petal

strawberries and more strawberries
my tongue remembers you

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sentimental

 

Sentimental

Christmas 
suddenly I remember to
the carol's last verse


mulled wine
the unknow old woman
in the mirror
has my eyes 

heavy snowfall
we use our footsteps
coming home

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orchids sequence

Orchids  Sequence

moon's shadow plays **

with swaying orchids 

Koh Samui

your searching hands on mine Cattelaya scent


raindrops
painted love letters
on Phalaenopsis



blue orchids voices whisper me, now




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**published on Asahi Haikuist Network by David McMurray 1. September 2023

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Santa's Belt Buckle and the Moth Finder

Santa's Belt Buckle and the Moth Finder 

snowy mountain peak

in my outstretched hand

the landing of an eagle feather

cotton balls never taste sweet

but with mashed potatoes on my glasses

the new kind of Christmas Market

seal burger on ice

bluest blue outside

the first snowflakes

under the dark Helleborus

a hole through the world

thimble word's echoes 

knife and heather

a wreath for an angel

gold only for goblins

claret lips and a mistletoe 

the trapped moth in the snow globe

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I wish you all a magical Christmas filled with Blessings of Joy, Light 

and infinite Love....for you and yours

isabella 

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Madness properly pronounces

Madness properly pronounces 

let's talk about life moonwalker's green umbrella 

Higgelti, Piggelti

Pop and Pu

the last refuge

a nursery rhyme

lucky stars - the secret a jade thimble 

dancing mice what about the promise for a promise 

Cockatoo as if white hair could guarantee wisdom 

last day of February

as if the moon could taste of cheese 

©Isabella Kramer

first published on weird laburnum 4. Feb. 2022 

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wind chill

wind chill

the helpful friction
of two stars in dark nights

black and white
thinking of your fingertips
at my breasts

woman power
the sweet-sour soup
served without

urban silence
a cat without teeth
smiles at me

lake ice noises
the one rift
that separate us

winter god
the first breath
without mask

©Isabella Kramer

first published on weird laburnum 8. Feb. 2021 

 

 

 

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Caput Mortuum

 

caput mortuum

pine bonsai

the edge of the world 

snow powdered

my one-line poem

then the bus drove off

on a frosted oak leaf

if I die in winter put me an ilex wreath on my head the rest for the wolves

LaLeLu 

is it Santa's voice

only a frozen maple leaf

scratches the moon

three old ravens argue

about the hedgehog's leaf grave

I close the window

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first published at bones journal No. 22 in 2021

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The Goddess & The Green Man

 

The Goddess & The green Man

lilac scent your soft lips open

sage buds without any question I say yes

spirited away. better use a fairy catcher this month power 

woodruff carpet the moment I know I'm yours

behind the glass door finding back the stolen milk

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Published in my first E-Chapbooks 2020

green dawn 

for download by Elancharan Gunasekaran on www.proletaria.com  

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disappeared fairytales

Disappeared Fairytales 

Leprechaun gold. your promise for the rest of our life

underwater fog***
suddenly I meet myself
as an octopus

one wrong sneeze
the gold in my pocket
now a Beaugregory

capturing a gnome while vanishing is easy. the art is to make him appear

never lie
during a storm
except the elves

Isabella Kramer

first published by Michael O'Brien on Weird Laburnum 6th Dec. 2020

*** published by David McMurray on Asahi Haikuist 18. August 2023 

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the May is green and white

The May is green and white

there must be a reason
why polar bears
never play dominoes

Mozart Clarinette Adagio
the heavy rain outside
more than a background

a smile
what a smile
ask the heart

war sound—
my neighbors cancel
their vacation

full rain barrel
the filigree super network
by a water spider

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first published by Michael O'Brien on Weird Laburnum



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COVID-Escape

COVID Escape

unexpected visit
a neighbor’s cat
breaks the rules

escape in my garden
the flapping of butterfly wings
nothing more

hawthorn blossoms
drunken bees
enjoy their community

the earth isn’t round
enough to escape
our own race

small fishes
and no swarm
that protects us

bunny ears and masks
easter greetings
from the neighbors

Isabella Kramer



first published by Michael O'Brien on Weird Laburnum 13th April 2020



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Green Dawn - publication of my haika collection

I'm very grateful to announce my first E-Chapbooks 2020 is published for download by Elancharan Gunasekaran on www.proletaria and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!! 

green dawn 

brilliant rare - the eyes of a flower moon

©isabella.kramer 

"This is possibly one of the finest haikai pamphlets I've read in years."

Alan Summers, Japan Times Award (2002), President, 
United Haiku and Tanka Society, and co-founder of Call of the Page

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the delicate short life

the delicate short life

columbines*
the breath i take
from your lips

filigree
the thin line
of a newborn smile

May wind
the up and downs
of an old love

ballet dancers
the hard work
to look like a feather

your unexpected
love word to me
columbines


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first published on weird laburnum by Michael O'Brien, 5th June 2020
* published ASAHI Haikuist Network by David MacMurray, April 16, 2021



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wet feed between daffodils

wet feed between daffodils

fugue in concrete

the violets nobody planted

a birds whistle PERFECT

finding a golden coin in mud

self-isolation

cat’s best birthday ever

complex cloud patterns

someone’s new language

drifts high above

wooden terrace

the stupid goldfish jumps

out of his glass again

covid-19 or not

the birch has born

new petals

the spring-like smile

of an empty park bench

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first published on weird laburnum 22. March 2020 by Michael O'Brien

empty pathway 
footprints leave its dust
a viral wind 


©magyar

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moth finder one

moth finder one 

a mouse in a thimble

maybe two

that's what I call home

flying

follow

the

thimble

on

my

finger

twisted thimbles

twisted dreams

ravens are black

but they don't like

rhymes

all the stars fit in a thimble Jötunn used long before us

blood outside the thimble

ice-blue eyes deep on me

hurt but survived

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published on weird laburnum ed. Michael O'Brien 30. January 2020 

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it's a wonderful life

I‘ll lasso you the moon

serenade in rain

things friends do

if they love you

cozy first home

a damaged stairway

direct into heaven


angel wings
the darkest point
of depression


the big hole
that one missed soul
can be

believe
light
for
broken
souls

a vacuum of believing
 in yourself the innocence

of rose petals


autumn night
 the call of a locomotive
and I think travel

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moon words

moon reflection

behind the dark window

a dying cat

the cry of an owl

under no moon

miss you

perfectly wrong

your ebb and flow

in my life

published on weird laburnum 2019

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