News ~

The Distinguished German Haijin Erika Schwalm has passed on into the Buddha Lands. We, at Wonder Haiku Worlds honour her presence by these random notes ~  

Author: Erika Schwalm
Editor: Matin Berner
Translator: David Cobb

From

http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/de/e.schwalm.htm

( Check here for the credits and more poems by Erica Schwalm )

Gabi Greve wrote:

I just got news from Germany,

after a long illness Erika has gone for ever !

surrounded by flowers
a life turns back
to earth

Erika, we will miss you so much!
GABI

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Dear Kigo Friends,
 Erika from Germany sends us her best wishes. She also sends a christmas tree ikebana.
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/christmas-tree.html
 
She could not be with us much for a long time but is now recovering.
Please send her your best thoughts  too.
 

Thank you so much, vielen Dank, liebe Erika !
 
GABI

Erika Schwalm - In Memoriam

From

http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/de/e.schwalm.htm

Erika Schwalm

Was born in 1941 in Frankfurt. She started writing haiku with the help of Dr. Tadao Araki, Fuyuo Usaki and Tohta Kaneko. In 1988 she founded the "Frankfurt Haiku Circle" and belongs to the board of the German Haiku Society. She is as well a teacher of Sogetsu Ikebana, which she studied in the course of many travels to Japan. Her original way is connecting ikebana and haiku. She has published two Ikebana books. Erika is corresponding with ikebana and haiku-groups all over the world.

"dear ones,

in the sadly universal way of things, i never told erika how much her presence on this list meant to me.

erika was a haiku buff and an ikebana buff.

so am i.

the two arts are so much the same.

consider this instruction from an ikebana text:

take about eighteen inches from the end of a magnolia branch and trim away most of the leaves, leaving a branch with a few leaves that conveys the essence of what a magnolia is.


is this not what we do with our haiku moments...scribble down the haiku
moment and later, write a proto-haiku that captures the moment, then trim,
trim trim until it is the essence of that haiku moment.

erika, you live on in our hearts.

and we will pass you on to others.

susan delphine delaney md
plano, texas"

Courtesy
WHCworldkigo@yahoogroups.com

PLEASE CHECK BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS.

http://www.worldhaiku.net/news_files/frankfurt/frankfurt2005.htm

  http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/12/erika-schwalm.html