Neal Whitman

Jul 01, 2010 1 Comment by Sea Stories

For the Shear Water Joy of It:
A Haiku Poet’s Ship to Shore Sextet

took my seasick pill –
moving across the wave front
stiff winged

short day underway
five cormorants riding low –
wings tip the wave tops

atop a wave
a tawney buff-crowned head –
the sun’s green flash

a widgeon surfing
the cumber crest –
offshore winds

six, no seven gulls
cloud calligraphers –
the buffeting wind

a Pacific loon
behind the Sand & Sea Grill –
a generous tip

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Neal Whitman is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. In 2009, two of his haiku were awarded honorable mention in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society annual contest judged by haiku masters in Japan. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, and drives a little white hatchback with the personalized auto plate, PG POET. His wife, Elaine, also writes haiku and her auto plate is PG SHORE.  Neal can be reached at neal@whitmanassociates.org

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Casey R. Skinner grew up along the Kuskokwim River in a rural Athabascan village in Alaska fishing for king salmon and mushing her sled dog team. She now resides on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska. Casey's a poet, a naturalist, a dog-lover, has two birds, and a stubborn bulldog named Gus.

One Response to “Neal Whitman”

  1. Wilbur Rounsaville says:
    July 29, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Very interesting, thanks alot mate.

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