Margaret Beverland moved to Katikati in 2004. On discovering the Haiku Pathway, she began to study and write haiku, and was invited to be Treasurer for the Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee.

Her work was first published in the taste of nashi the third New Zealand Haiku Anthology (Windrift 2008), and since then her work has appeared in Kokako, Bravado, and in two NZ Poetry Society anthologies, and overseas in Australia and the United States. In 2010 one of her haiku was engraved on a boulder on the Haiku Pathway. Email Margaret.

---

whitebait season . . .
fishermen fritter away
the day

---

deeper
        deeper
                into the stream
                       the shadow of a swallow

---

beyond the yellow gate
            marigolds
marigolds   marigolds
            marigolds

---

the thrush
just
part
of
the
old
fence
post

---

every morning
waiting for the kingfisher . . .
bare branch of the eucalypt

---

as the days grow shorter
thyme         flowers in my garden

---

if not for the shadow
on the canyon wall
I would have missed the condor

---

wind chimes across parched fields a dandelion drifts

---

clouds
chasing clouds
the scent of lemon

---

all the way down
freewheeling through
cicada song

---

Publication Notes

whitebait season: the taste of nashi anthology (Windrift, NZ) 2008.

deeper: moments in the whirlwind (NZ Poetry Society anthology) 2009.

beyond the yellow gate: Kokako 10 (NZ) 2009.

the thrush: ibid.

every morning: Kokako 11, 2009.

as the days grow shorter: seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (Bottle Rockets Press, US) 2010.

wind chimes across… Kokako 12, 2010.

if not for the shadow: ibid.

clouds: FreeXpresSion, (Australia) May 2010.

all the way down: Bravado 19 (NZ) 2010.