Featured Poet – Cherie Hunter Day
a swirl of ink
in the brush water
early dusk
all the rage white masks
palominos–
curve of the winter hills
in moonlight
our discussion
turns theological –
hawks riding thermals
winding road
for the next eight miles
Coltrane
Cherie Hunter Day is the author of four haiku collections: The Horse with One Blue Eye (Snapshot Press, 2006); apology moon (Red Moon Press, 2013); sting medicine (Bones Library, 2016); and for Want (Ornithopter Press, 2017). She has been writing and publishing haiku and related forms for over 30 years.
her way
to say goodbye
decreasing moon
– Mirela Brăilean
birdsong
so many ways
to forget
– Roberta Beach Jacobson
paraselene
when she was there
and then not
– John Hawkhead
our last visit
the plane de-iced twice
before take off
– Gary Hotham
divorce
after the vacation
the empty shells
– Maya Daneva
distant bells
filling the rooms
amaryllis scent
– Joanna Ashwell
fresh cut flowers
the bouquet
of my beer
– Jeff Hoagland
dandelion …
a deep breath
and then a puff
– Lucia Cardillo
cabin fever
air bubbles rise
beneath pond ice
– Kristen Lindquist
collared dove’s coo
a night of snow
drips to the ground
– Thomas Powell
park boom box
a sparrow’s
hip hop
– Jay Friedenberg
the flickering
of a butterfly’s wings
first day of school
– Agus Maulana Sunjaya
balloon fest
a windhover
glides away
– Clive Bennett
bullpen action
house sparrows
dustbathing
– Jeff Hoagland
spring equinox
glimpses
of trampolining kids
– Robert Davey
all the plans
for this holiday season
cold winter wind
– Christina Chin
hope chest
a box of old love letters
not in papa’s hand
– Sharon Rhutasel-Jones
woulda coulda shoulda …
an ebb tide tugs
at the shore
– Brad Bennett
convalescing
nothing to be done
again today
– Michael Henry Lee
spring frost …
the towpath jogger
running backwards
– Thomas Powell
making the most
of the Flower Moon
coronavirus
– Antoinette Libro
downed cypress
my bride assures me
there’s a poem there
– Nathanael Tico
filling the letter
with meaning
white space
– John Hawkhead
new hip
getting along again
with my brother
– Marcus Larsson
Christmas day
a dusting of snow
just enough
– Janice Doppler
shower song
last night’s
first kisses
– Frank Hooven
heavy salt air …
miles from a safe shore
night sky expands
– B.A. France
soft-core porn
all over the bedroom floor
clean and dirty clothes
– Bob Carlton
somewhere between mosquitoes and fire f lies love
– Agnes Eva Savich
after sex
through the curtains
a subdued glow
– Olivier Schopfer
opening
a forgotten secret
grandmother’s locket
– Deborah P Kolodji
dandelion fluff
saying my desire
in one breath
– Mirela Brăilean
old photographs –
getting to know
my other selves
– Cristina Povero
shortest day
not enough time
to get our stories straight
– Kristen Lindquist
our whispers
the soft brush of fingertips
on skin
– Bob Carlton
S’derot sirens
the almond trees
in full bloom
– Greg Schwartz
solar collectors
on the hillside
old oaks
– Janice Doppler
all-in red white and blue poker chips scattered in the street
– Nathanael Tico
approaching sunset
another petal falls
from the Peace Rose
– Deborah P Kolodji
placing
the right preposition
flagstone moss
– Brad Bennett
cockcrow
the red gash
of dawn
– Mike Gallagher
one bowl
short of a set
old wound
– Jennifer Hambrick
slow morning
the pressure of a blunt knife
against a tomato
– Alex Ben-Ari
hive death
a wound
of discarded bees
– Cherie Hunter Day
waxing moon
the news of
her miscarriage
– Lorraine A. Padden
crescent moon
the black cat slips
into a crevice
– Antoinette Libro
silver singles
a six-legged spider
repairs her web
– Michael Henry Lee
All Souls’ Day
jack-o-lanterns
eaten by squirrels
– Dan Spencer
spring drizzle –
a random cadence
of woodpecker
– Goran Gatalica
treeline
the crows nestling
into darkness
– Mike Gallagher
stone cairns …
the silence
in between
– Suraj Nanu
final wish
an orca pod glints
in the sun
– Debbie Strange
repeating
the loss in words
bird songs in the morning
– Gary Hotham
graveyard –
the sound of a
falling leaf
– Pravat Kumar Padhy
a stand of elm
the town of my youth
on this autumn breeze
– Frank Hooven
classical station
nonstop pledge drive
givin’ me the blues
– Nathanael Tico
low-tech retreat
my thumbs fallen
into disuse
– Ryland Shengzhi Li
winter morning
windshield wipers
stiff with frost
– Sharon Rhutasel-Jones
wine cork soldiers
muster their platoon –
I’ve surrendered
– Tami M. Johnson
coffee-shop window
the woman’s reflection
prettier than her
– Alex Ben-Ari
sepia-toned photo …
how memories
shape us
– Angela Terry
midwinter
the world outside
an old photograph
– Olivier Schopfer
shapeless morning
melting snow
under the fog
– Maya Daneva
skeletal branches
feathering the sunlight
almost a bird
– Diana Webb
Image by Cheryl Burger, haiku by Dee Evetts – with special thanks to Tony Laryea.
