Remember your haiku notebook!

This is Carol Steele, a stalwart member of the the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society. 

She has served as President, and is just retiring as the long-time Editor of Geppo, our newsletter. Countless meetings and special events have been ornamented by her Ikebana,

of which she has made a long-time and devoted study.

Here she is shown working on a haiku at our Tanabata celebration 

in the hills above Livermore in 2007.

It is a worthwhile habit to carry a small notebook like this with you

so you can catch haiku impressions when they occur to you.

Tanabata—

so many night lights for

sleeping garden stones

Roger Abe

   

from the Poet's Pages at youngleaves.org

which is the many-layered website of

The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society

(This haiku also appeared in
The mocking bird sings;
1997 YT Member's Anthology, page 11)