Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di HAIKU di ispirazione giapponese

 

nutmeg
the pungent smell
of the autumn woods

noce moscata
l’odore pungente
dei boschi autunnali

Eufemia Griffo

 

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/…/cattailsOCTOBER2020.pdf 

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Honoured to appear in Charlotte Digregorio’s blog🙏

Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog

cemetery garden

the endless sleep

of leaves

 

by Eufemia Griffo  (Italy)

Blithe Spirit, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2018

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I’m grateful and honored to Charlotte Digregorio , to sharing one poem of mine, once again. Please, follow, her special blog.

www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com

alpine lake

an artist paints

his melancholy

by Eufemia Griffo (Italy)

Haiku Dialogue, Jan. 30, 2019

#FemkuMag An e-zine of Womxn’s Haiku May 2020 – issue #24 Guest Editor: Julie Bloss Kelsey – Editor-in-Chief: Lori A Minor. Here’s my contribution:

her weddding anniversary
my mother’s ring shines
in an old tin box

~
Eufemia Griffo

https://69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_3600577f687f443090d3554de09f424b.pdf

‘spring thaw’ in DailyHaiga, an edited journal of contemporary and traditional haiga, edited by Linda Pilarsky. Delighted and grateful to be here.

spring thaw

one bud

after another

haiku and ph. by Eufemia Griffo

http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2740/-spring-thaw-by-eufemia-griffo-italy

I’m grateful and honored to Charlotte Digregorio , to sharing one poem of mine, once again. Please, follow, her special blog.

https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/

prayer time

the distant chant

of birds

Eufemia Griffo

Failed Haiku, “Back from the Dead,” Issue 53, Vol. 5, 20207

Grateful to have one haiku of mine in Blithe Spirit, Vol. 30 number 2, another stunning collection of poems, edited by Caroline Skanne.

early spring
the empty rooms fill
with birdsong

 

inizio primavera
le stanze vuote si riempiono
col canto degli uccelli
~

Eufemia Griffo

HAIKU DIALOGUE – the way of the housekeeper. Honoured to receive a comment by Craig Kittner, guest editor for this week theme.

kids room
a layer of dust
on the old fairy tales

 

stanza dei bambini
uno strato di polvere
sulle vecchie fiabe

 

Eufemia Griffo

This is commen by the guest editor.
Here we have the sight of dust on books and another association of lost innocence. The tales we were told as children and the tales we pass on to our own, what do they hold? What relevance to our lives today? A question of burning importance right now, perhaps.

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2020/07/08/haiku-dialogue-the-way-of-the-housekeeper/?fbclid=IwAR2EpqETrCfq6QWkzwYtIWZ_7NZ0epp_VQFuwVCOUMUhpplwLNuvwJxyHRc

I am incredibly honored to appear for the first time in Frogpond, along with many poets from all over the world. Thank you to Michael Ketchek to including my work.

castle ruins
forget-me-nots
among the old stones

 

rovine del castello
un non ti scordar di me
tra le vecchie pietre

Eufemia Griffo

Una Valigia ricca di Sogni

La mitologia, le leggende, le fiabe, mi hanno sempre attratta con particolare forza.
I miti greci e norreni, in particolare, sono quelli che più rapiscono la mia attenzione.
Ho amato l‘Iliade e l’Odissea, e spero di riuscire a rileggerli senza il dovere dello studio. Per questo motivo quando su Instagram ho visto una nuova idea di lettura – #iltesorogreco -, ho deciso di seguirla per quel che posso.

Chiara (@sorrideredibrutto) e Cecilia (@eccoilibri) hanno deciso di donare più attenzione al Mito Greco, leggendo ogni mese dei libri seguendo un tema specifico. Il mese di luglio prevedeva quindi una lettura sugli Eroi Greci. Complice una promozione della Feltrinelli, ho deciso di recuperare un libro di cui ho tanto sentito parlare – il più delle volte davvero bene – e mi sono persa tra le pagine della Miller, assaporando in maniera forse un po’ diversa la…

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La recensione di Raffaella Tamba, dalla redazione di Libro.guerriero, di Marilù.

libroguerriero

Recensione di Raffaella Tamba 

Primo romanzo di Eufemia Griffo, già apprezzata e premiata scrittrice di racconti e poesie. Ed il tocco poetico permea le sue pagine nella restituzione delle emozioni più intime colte ai suoi personaggi. 

Si sviluppa in due tempi storici differenti e lontani fra loro: comincia in un passato molto prossimo, gli anni ’90 (collocazione non casuale che verrà motivata proprio nelle ultime pagine), a Roma, dove vive la protagonista, Cordelia, giornalista per un periodico di viaggi dal cui direttore riceve l’incarico di redigere un articolo su Triora, località ligure teatro, nella seconda metà del ‘500, di un episodio efferato di persecuzione per accusa di stregoneria. Tutte le fonti e le tappe del processo costituiscono i nodi della trama del romanzo, intorno ai quali si sviluppa la storia. L’autrice riesce a congiungere strettamente gli eventi e i personaggi storici con protagonisti e finzione narrativa attraverso…

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“Back from the Dead” , issue 53 volume 5 ( May 2020) of Failed Haiku, edited by Michael Rehling, is now online. Thank you so much to Mike for this lovely collection. These are my three poems:

prayer time
the distant chant
of birds

lockdown
filling our silence
new silence

quarantine time
imagining the shape
first leaves

tempo di preghiera
il canto distante
degli uccelli

lockdown
riempiendo il nostro silenzio
con un nuovo silenzio

tempo di quarantena
immaginando la forma
delle prime foglie

 

Eufemia Griffo

http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue53.pdf

A wide selection of mine, for a total of 48 poems, appears in Living Haiku Anthology (The haiku foundation). Thank you to editors Don Baird and Hansha Teky, to including my best work.

https://livinghaikuanthology.com/index-of-poets/alphabetic-index/445-g-poets/griffo,-eufemia.html

One year ago…

I forgot to share this one!!!

Three poems of mine have been published and translated into Bulgarian,

by Iliyana Stoyanova

 

lullaby
the words my mother
never sang

sewing machine
patching
my old scars

sunset…
the lonely song
of a rice picker

Eufemia Griffo

 

#DebbieMStrangeHaigaProject
Ph. by Debbie Strange
Poem by Eufemia Griffo
~~~
Thank you very much to Debbie Strange for this great honor.

A lovely haiga with an awesome picture by Debbie and one poem of mine (previously published on Seashore 2018).

another year older
the sun slides
into its shadow

(Poem by Eufemia Griffo, Pic. by Debbie Strange)

One haiku of mine has been published in Caroline Skanne’s Hedgerow #130 Haiku Journal (winter edition). Grateful thanks to Caroline Skanne for including my poem in this stunning collection.

snow moon
an old love story
forgotten
~
Eufemia Griffo

Due miei haiku pubblicati dal gruppo editoriale Fulvio Fapanni Meteora, nell’ambito dell’iniziativa Cartoline della speranza. Entrambi sono apparsi sulla rivista britannica Blithe Spirit. 

hometown
walking in the fields
barefoot

città natale
camminando nei campi
a piedi nudi

silent mountains
listening to the rain
on honeysuckles

montagne silenziose
ascoltando la pioggia
sui caprifogli
~
Eufemia Griffo

A special to Daily Haiku on Charlotte Digregorio’s blog with a selection of my poems and my biography. I’m really grateful to her for this great honor.

https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/special-to-the-daily-haiku-april-19-2020/

deep autumn
the flight of the last leaves
on the sidewalk
A Sense of Place: City Sidewalk, November 2018

old calendar
I rewrite my life
from day one
Blithe Spirit, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2020

sakura blossoms
a woman counts the years
on her fingers
ephemerae, May 2018

mantra meditation
my thoughts lost
among my thoughts
Failed Haiku, July 2019
~
Eufemia Griffo

https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/…/special-to-the…/

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Eufemia Griffo is an Italian Kindergarten teacher, poet, haijin, novelist, and essayist. She has lived in Milan since she was five years old. Currently, she lives in Settimo Milanese, near Milan, with her son Ivan and her husband Paolo.

Griffo has written short stories since she was very young and made her debut in literature in 2005, winning First Prize for a short story “Piccolo Lupo, ” (Little Wolf.) It was inspired by the Lakota Indians and the massacre of Wounded Knee of 1890. Griffo has since won many literary prizes.

Her great passion for haiku dates back to 2005 when she began studying this form that she finds so fascinating. That year, in collaboration with photographers and Milanese painters, she was a participant in the exhibition of painting and haiku in Milan.

Griffo also writes short stories, long poems, magazine reviews, prefaces to books, literary essays, and novels. She writes primarily in Italian and English. In Italian, she reviewed two unpublished novels of Charlotte Bronte, receiving thanks from The Bronte Society. She also has a grand passion for Jane Austen and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Griffo’s poems appear in several anthologies and on Italian and English blogs. She publishes her haiku online and in print journals, including: Asahi Haikuist Network, Butterfly Dream, Blithe Spirit, Cattails, Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, Chrysanthemum, Daily Haiga, ephemerae, Failed Haiku, Hedgerow, Wild Voices Anthology, Memorie di una geisha, Lumachine, The Mainichi, Memorie di una geisha, The Mamba, Modern Haiku, Otata, Presence, Scryptic Magazine, FemkuMag, Stardust Haiku, The Haiku Foundation features, Wales Haiku Journal, World Haiku Review, Under the Basho, Frogpond, Temps Libre Magazine, and 2nd haiku anthology from IN haiku Mumbai.

She has won many First Place prizes for her writing and poetry, including haiku. Her most recent First Prize was awarded by “Premio Doscar, 2019 edition” for her poem “Il silenzio e la neve” (The silence and snow.)
She took First Place in the World Haiku Review; Second Italian Prize for “La pelle non dimentica,” terza edizione; and Third Place for “Sharpening the green pencil” (all in 2019.)

For the third year in a row, (2017–2019), she received the honor of “European Top 100 Most Creative Haiku Authors.”

Griffo’s published books are: L’eredita di Dracula: Liriche sull’Amore oltre il tempo (The Legacy of Dracula: Lyrics on love over time), a poetry collection inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Edizioni della Sera, Roma, 2015; Il fiume scorre ancora (The river still flows), a collection of 25 short stories, Milano, 2016; Sagome di carta: Le streghe di Triora (Triora’s Witches), a historical novel dedicated to the witchcraft trials. The latter has been a top seller on Amazon for the past year and a half.

Please, check link below to reading the complete article

https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/special-to-the-daily-haiku-april-19-2020/

Delighted to have one poem of mine in the Spring issue of Cattails, edited by Geethanjali Rajan (haiku section). Here’s my poem:

first day of spring
this longing to be
a butterfly

 

primo giorno di primavera
questo desiderio
di essere una farfalla

Eufemia Griffo, Italy

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsAPRIL2020.pdf

Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, Year of the Nurse, is up. 

hospital garden
a nurse picks up
a tiny forget me not

 

this cold in my bones
my mind wanders
unknow places

 

hospital window
a woman sings
a lullaby for her child

 

hospital video call
he tells me I love you
in every languages

 

hospital window
a trail of dew draws
my thoughts

(Otata, Sept. 2018)
~
Eufemia Griffo

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/earth…/earthrise2020.pdf…