Love Haiku Update

Haikulist is live and features my Haiku among other Love Haiku.  Check it out! The Haikuist is Live!!! Micromance Magazine Jul 19 Congratulations to all 139 contributors… The Haikuist is now available in paperback! To quote the back cover: “Love stories don’t always need chapters. Sometimes, all they need is seventeen syllables. In this inaugural anthology from The Haikuist, 139 poets from around the world weave complete love stories through evocative sequences of traditional 5-7-5 haiku. Rooted in a little nature and a lot of love, these miniature narratives reveal love’s most touching moments. From the excitement of a first meeting to heartbreaking final goodbyes and every intimate moment in between, each page of this poignant collection offers a reminder that love doesn’t always need more words, it only needs the right ones. In case anyone wishes to link their Amazon Author page to this anthology and needs “proof “- along with the cover above, here is the table of contents… Where to purchase: U.S…. The Haikuist – U.S. Canada…. The Haikuist – Canada U.K…. The Haikuist – U.K. Germany…. The Haikuist – Germany Italy….. The Haikuist – Italy Australia….. The Haikuist – Australia Currently, there is no ebook. I have used all methods and different software for formatting ebooks, and am not satisfied with any of them. The books never look “clean” and any special fonts used to add personality, character or uniqueness to the book don’t carry over into epubs. I don’t like that with KissMet Quarterly… I definitely did not want this beautiful collection appearing chaotic or messy and opted to forego the ebook option on Amazon. Once links are available to U.S. writers for bulk discount copies on our Fourthwall store, there will also be a link for PDF download available to all writers/readers. So if anyone is interested in a digital download of The Haikuist or cannot access a physical copy from their Amazon marketplace, stay tuned and I will share that link in the coming days! A huge thanks to all the contributors. I will be receiving my copy very soon and it will be sent to the U.S. Library of Congress to finish the ISSN process, where it will be housed in their archives. I will update once copies are sent in to the Touchstone Award committee. And I have other plans as well… which I’m finding it more difficult to keep them secret, so I will announce them now… I plan to send copies in to The Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo – the world’s only library devoted exclusively to collecting and preserving haiku works for future generations. I also plan to send copies to the American Haiku Archives, to Haiku Canada (Haiku Canada Collection and Archives), and to the Australian Haiku Society for preservation and to honor the contributors from those regions/countries. As these events take place, I will keep you all posted, sharing pics/video of the books being mailed and I will share any correspondence I receive from these different esteemed archives. This is all so exciting to me, and I hope it is for you as well!! Thank you all… and have a great coming week! Gail Lynn, EIC

Five Love Haiku Published

dreams and the Unexplanablewhat dreams may come

The Haikuist  will publish my five true love haiku in their next issue. here’s the latest information on publication from the Publisher, Haikuist magazine.

 

The Haikuist	3:25 AM (17 hours ago)
to micromancemagazine@gmail.com, bcc: me

 

Dear Author,

 

Congratulations! And welcome to The Haikuist family!

 

Here are some reminders and updates:

 

• Keeping with common haiku “rules,” titles will not be included. G. Lynn Brown, editor, reserves the right to remove titles to maintain consistency throughout the Anthology.

 

• The tentative publication datefor the Anthology is July 20, and you will be informed once it is released and available for purchase. Discounted author copies, sold in lots of 10 or 20, will also be available to U.S. contributors ONLY. Purchase links will be sent as soon as they’re available.

 

Announcements:

 

• Iwill be applying to the U.S. Library of Congress for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number, which helps catalogers, libraries, and databases quickly and accurately track and cite serial literature) for The Haikuist, which means sending a hard copy to the Library of Congress, and The LoC then adds the publication’s metadata to the international ISSN portal AND retains the sample in their permanent collections. So, the Inaugural Issue (Summer ‘26) of The Haikuist will be housed in the U.S. Library of Congress.

 

• I will be submitting the Inaugural Issue (Summer ‘26) of The Haikuist to The Haiku Foundation for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. I feel this anthology with its theme, concept, and high caliber of contributors, deserves to at least be nominated for such an honor.

 

• I have some other plans I’m working on that will be a huge honor for The Haikuist and its contributors, but I will make those announcements as things are finalized and certain.

 

Cover Reveal:

 

For those who haven’t yet seen the cover design, or who may have seen it in X posts but not realized it is the cover:

 

Five Love Haiku

 

I met and Married The Lady of My Dreams

I met and married

The lady who haunted my dreams

During eight long years

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When I Met My Love

When I met my love

It was just my karmic fate

We were met to be

My Love Came in a Dream

my love came in a dream

She must have been an angel

Sent to save my soul

The Day We First Met

 

The day we first met

Your love mojo magic

mesmerized my soul

When I First Saw You

 

When I first saw you

sparks flowing between our hearts

it was fate at work

Author note:

Based on my true love story. We first met in a dream in 1974, and then she walked out of my dreams onto a bus in 1982 in South Korea.  I proposed after three days, married two months later, and we are still together 44 years later.  This true love fairy tale romance has been published in various publications, including Chicken Soup for the Soul, “Dreams and Premonitions,” which has been republished and is available on Amazon now.

For More Dream Girl  and Love Poems See the Following:

Chicken Soup for the Soul Republishes “Dream Girl”
Joy Links Forever Just Published Dream Girl and Cheating Death Twenty Times
39th Anniversary of Marrying the Lady of My Dreams

39th Anniversary of Marrying the Lady of My Dreams
“Dreams Do Come True”

Haiku list

Blessed with Love Publishes Love Poems
Cosmos Love Poems
5-7-7 Love Poem
City Limits Publishes Love Poems
More Love Poems

Timeless Love NaNoWrMo Entry 2019

Love Poems from Snarling Cup of Coffee Chapbook Collection, 2nd posting

Chicken Soup for the Soul Republishes “Dream Girl”

medium published love poems

Bear Creek Haiku
Pure Haiku Published Haiku

Cosmos’s Cheritas and Haiku
cosmic Haiku and other short poems

Audio List for your Listening Pleasure

audio clips Married Dream Girl

dream Girl Cheritas

Dream Girl Part One

Dream girl part Two

 

Dream Girl Part Three

Dream Girl

 

Lady of My Dreams

 

Dream that Changed My Life

 

Dream Ghosal

One Day My Dream Came True

my Love Came Out of A Dream

she was Everything I could Dream Of

 

The Love of my Life Came in A Dream

 

Impossible Dreams

 

Dreaming of Y0u

Dream What Might Come

Dreams

 

the END