Meeting Summary for May 22, 2014

Post date: Jun 19, 2014 5:34:46 AM

Haiku Northwest held its May 22, 2014 meeting at the Bellevue Regional Library. Present were Ramesh Anand, Ida Freilinger, Dianne Garcia, Connie Hutchison, Michelle Schaefer, and Michael Dylan Welch (probably our smallest meeting ever), with Michelle, our vice president, leading the meeting in our president’s absence. Our special guest, Ramesh Anand, was visiting from Bangalore, India. An engineer for Philips Corporation, he is working in the Seattle area for part of the summer. Ramesh gave a brief presentation about haiku activities in India, and then read some of his own haiku. Here are two examples: showery day my child learns to gargle with salt water on the lake wrinkled face of wind Everyone present also enjoyed several rounds of reading and discussing their haiku.