Margaret Beverland

Margaret Beverland, Treasurer of the Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Group, lives with her husband and extremely spoiled German Short-haired Pointer on a kiwifruit orchard at the edge of the Tauranga Harbour. She writes long sentences, short stories, poems, haiku, and is now trying her hand at tanka and haibun.

Awards and Other Honors: A haiku was selected to be engraved on a rock at the Katikati Haiku Pathway, New Zealand, in the 10th anniversary extension of the pathway.

whitebait season
fishermen fritter away
the day

beyond the yellow gate
          marigolds
marigolds       marigolds
          marigolds

deeper
      deeper
            into the stream
                  the shadow of a swallow

every morning
waiting for the kingfisher
bare branch of the eucalypt

the thrush
    just
    part
     of 
     the 
     old 
   fence 
    post

as the days grow shorter
thyme      flowers in my garden

Credits: "whitebait season" - the taste of nashi (New Zealand Haiku Anthology, 2008); inscribed on a rock at the Katikati Haiku Pathway; "deeper" - moments in the whirlwind (New Zealand Poetry Society anthology, 2009); "the thrush" - Kokako 10, a journal of haiku, tanka & haibun and related forms (New Zealand, 2009); "beyond the yellow gate" - Kokako 10, a journal of haiku, tanka & haibun and related forms (New Zealand, 2009); "every morning" - Kokako 10, a journal of haiku, tanka & haibun and related forms (New Zealand, 2009); "as the days grow shorter" - seed packets [an anthology of flower haiku] (bottle rockets press, Connecticut, 2010).