Ron C. Moss is a Tasmanian writer, artist, and poet who works in most Japanese forms. His haikus and haiga have won numerous awards and have been published in periodicals and books such as Yellow Moon, Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, World Haiku Review, Red Moon’s Contemporary Haibun Anthology, World Haiku Review, and Paper Wasp. Ron is a member of Watersmeet Haiku Group, the World Haiku Association, and the World Haiku Club.
Tasmanian poet Ron C. Moss offers a requiem for what vanishes and what remains within the seasons with this series of haiku.
earth storm an ending I can almost feel
longest night . . .
Tasmanian Tigers pace
the underworld1
firestorm
the redwood coffin
safe underground
charred into bark a gaze of fire2
bloodwood moon
a starving dingo paces
the rain shadow3
boneyard
the dry riverbed
cracked open4
ghost rainbow
something written
with faded lies
rising floodwater
house lights dim and fade
one by one
broken starfish
waves pound the beach
while children sleep5
memorial service
the chant of forest ravens
unborn and undying
Reflecting a world where snow no longer arrives, annual migrations fall out of time, yet first blossoms still burst, Seasons, our sixth print edition, moves through three themes: requiem, invitation, and celebration—each a contemplation on the paradoxical ways the seasons now beckon us into intimate relationship.
