Corrieneuchin: Scots Haikus In Celtic and English

Corrieneuchin: Scots Haikus In Celtic and English

Corrieneuchin: Scots Haikus In Celtic and English

Well, as am 'thinking I dinna ken Muckle of Celtic, then comes McDonald ! And all the reading I've done of the works of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott will make any willing traveler more familiar, certainly not fluent, in a wonderful and ancient langua

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Well, as am 'thinking I dinna ken Muckle of Celtic, then comes McDonald ! And all the reading I've done of the works of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott will make any willing traveler more familiar, certainly not fluent, in a wonderful and ancient language that gave us much of what we call modern English, for a'that, as the Bard of Scotland might say.

Travels in Scotland reveal the special quality of the landscape ; one almost designed for a certain group to populate, even the plants are special and green is more green in Scotland. Anyway, I happen to be from Scots, so I can tell you from the heart, these poems are gems.

Each Haiku is measured in perfect Celtic and then below translated in perfect English and gorgeous and moving and transcendental, this one especially caught my attention :

in Celtic :

her auld dug's deid-

ilka day

she stravaigs its ghaist

in English :

her old dog is dead-

every day

she walks its ghost

The human and other animals ; mortality that rolls from generation :

in English :

round the wall
family photos
watching him die

in Celtic :

roon the wa’s
faimilie photies
takkin tent o’s deein

McDonald’s poetry expresses a sense of time that is itself timeless.

May I heartily recommend to all this wonderful book. I shall treasure it on my shelf of Burns and Sir Walter Scott, to read from as often.

- Mary Barnet

Echo Ridge Paperback – January 1, 2021 by Charles Dowling Williams (Author)

In these haiku, we find how the poet withdraws from outer experience to concentrate on the inner. These haiku are full of amazing and deep imagination. It is evident that in all these haiku there is present a rich style and a variety of melodies to attract the readers.

Winnows by Maxianne Berger

As you navigate the rapids, your senses are heightened and your focus is sharp. Every twist and turn of the river demands your attention, and you must work together with your fellow adventurers to navigate the challenges ahead.

Singing the Seasons Paperback – January 10, 2023 by Helen Fujimoto (Author)

Fujimoto artfully uses her language to tell her story through poems. Her spirit seems to grow with each line. Her memories are shared with thought. To write of the life of another, especially one you’ve lost is quite an undertaking and Fujimoto handles it quite nicely.

what a [hiding] place by Jean LeBlanc

Jean’s insights and visualizations derive delicacy from the environment, birds, and nature, and sloshes a solvent of beauty mixed with the solutes of delicacy, homogenously on every page of the book through her writings. In this collection, nature's secrets intimacies receive brilliance from natural sources: birds, rocks, rivers, insects and trees. No doubt the author’s haiku begin with emotion recollected in tranquillity; the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears and emotion is gradually produced.

Reflections on Ban’ya Natsuishi’s Flying Pope 160 Haiku

Many years ago I went to view an exhibition titled “Hands”, a series of photos by Japanese artist Yasu Suzuka (鈴鹿芳康) a friend, and respected senpai. There were many large black and white close-up photos of hands in the prayer position, as well as many small color Polaroid photos of ordinary people, hands grasped in prayer arranged in various patterns. Reflecting on the show later I wrote in my journal: “only Suzuka-sensei, a Buddhist influenced conceptual artist, could pull this off, make it have meaning, and not be boring.”