Featured Poet – Agnes Eva Savich
the way she braids
her long gray hair
winter evening
the missed note
in her piano chord
November rain
ghost moon
the baby latches on to her
remaining breast
winter blues
the unlit street lamp
waits for night
trying to give
advice to my daughter
wild rose bushes
Agnes Eva Savich currently serves as the Southwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, the Chief Financial Officer on the director’s board of Haiku North America, and as a Panelist on the Touchstone Awards committee. She leads the Austin Texas Haiku Group (founded 2019), the Pflugerville Poetry Society, and an HSA mentorship program group. She’s also been a contest judge, editor, and conference presenter. Her work has appeared in major journals since 2004, placed in contests in the U.S.A., Canada, England and Japan, and has been anthologized in several collections.
angel’s trumpet
a halo surrounds
the moon
– Sue Courtney
arbor day talk
heartwood darker
than sapwood
– Thomas Festa
before i knew
the name Krishna
black butterfly
– Meera Rehm
evening jasmine —
regret over
saying too much
– Keiko Izawa
the courage
to be first
daffodil
– Scott Mason
empty churchyard
a dust devil dances
out of the shadows
– Patricia Hawkhead
Midwest summer night
the B-2 Stealth
crosses the moon
– Frank Higgins
ghost story
circling the campfire
rumours of an owl
– Michael Dylan Welch
homeless shelter
evening creeps
inside the cracks
– Jo Balistreri
Sunday night train
complicated feelings
about a soldier
– Tom Zille
stargazer lilies
the heady scent
of second chances
– Cynthia Anderson
strewn blossoms
the monk kneels
to gather buds
– Neena Singh
the heat …
a church emanating
hallelujahs
– Shawn Blair
blossom chill
the old man preaches life
to a bar girl
– Keiko Izawa
a new clearing
prescribe burned …
Ash Wednesday
– Christopher Patchel
black rosary beads
how mum counted
the hours down
– John Hawkhead
radiograph shadows
creeping ice
nears the shore
– Nicholas H. Rossler
setting sun
in the food pot
war ashes
– Hifsa Ashraf
gull cries
the shadow of an eagle
crosses the cove
– Janice Doppler
miscarriage
a shooting-star
goes unnamed
– Patricia Hawkhead
first confession
the suppressed smile
of the priest
– John Pappas
thriller film
the sound effects
of his candy bag
– Marie Derley
refusing
to take sides
roly-poly bug
– Michael Henry Lee
Hound of the Baskervilles —
on my reading glasses
fingerprints
– Mykel Board
the last seat
in the last train
across from a smile
– Robert Witmer
study room —
reading
the sunlight
– Ishan Anagh
a newcomer
at the poetry reading
spring wind
– Richa Sharma
paper map
he lives his life
in the folds
– Debbie Olson
story hour …
rain soaking up
the city lights
– Kathryn Liebowitz
drying leaves
the poet
in training
– Mike Fainzilber
the sweet taste
of sore fingertips
pecan pie
– Richard L. Matta
high floater
to deep right
dandelion wish
– Jeff Hoagland
autumn breeze
the perfect twirl
of an apple peel
– Mona Bedi
at the end
of the long kite line
— a broad smile
– Henk van der Werff
a squeeze of lemon
on a rainbow trout
summer stars
– Robert Witmer
Eiffel Tower
a busker’s dog
wears shades
– Audrey Quinn
crossing the Rubicon July heat
– Roland Packer
the opiate
of wanderers
field poppies
– Ernest Wit
Himalayan yak never have I Everest
– susan burch
haiku on empty
stopping to fill up
my tanka
– Mykel Board
Essere o non essere
— the bardo
– Scott Mason
still winter air
tatters of dried flowers
fill the singing bowl
– Anne Burgevin
flower child her tattoos wilting
– Gavin Austin
mizu no oto
that sinking feeling
sinking in
– Herb Tate
song lines …
the half-life
of a summer promise
– Angela Terry
lost-dog poster —
a Dudley Carter totem
rotting in the rain
– Michael Dylan Welch
waking naked
a luna moth
stuck to the flypaper
– Eric Sundquist
Alzheimer’s
this room
smaller than her last
– Carolyn Hall
more nettle
than wildflower
adulthood
– Bryan Rickert
sweeping petals
off the floor
apology not accepted
– Rick Jackofsky
bird songs
these noises
that aren’t called noises
– Daniel Birnbaum
tattered flag —
the old biker’s beard
flutters in the breeze
– Stephen Toft
agave blossoms
all our old ways
passing away
– Joshua St. Claire
country road —
all the beer cans
Natural Light
– Jenny Ward Angyal
borderline
a Yankee cap stuck
in barbed wire
– Adrian Bouter
sledding
on a slice of deerskin
moonrise
– Bill Cooper
red poppies
deep in our thoughts
the never ending war
– Meera Rehm
Holy Week
on the trees of Judah
not even a nest
– Carmela Marino
a white dove
over the war zone
… briefly
– Lorin Ford
shrapnel
in the girl’s skull
Holy Land
– Ruth Holzer
Gaza heatwave —
in the camp’s garden
drooping roses
– Hifsa Ashraf
dark church
we bow down at the foot
of a Rothko
– John Hawkhead
partial eclipse
still sitting
in my draft folder
– Mark Forrester
moon rise
the day of the dead
mosquitoes
– Randy Brooks
snow deepens …
dust in the folds
of your letters
– Mark Smith
Earth Day
the tiny spider
hangs by a thread
– Michael Henry Lee
deep woods …
the reflecting pond isn’t still
when I sit long enough
– Michael Dylan Welch
twisted pine
learning to live
with my flaws
– Ravi Kiran
new town
unpacking
my demons
– Tomislav Sjekloća
shell bits and sea glass
finding the beauty
in myself
– Pat Davis
I follow
the barman’s shaker
my mixed-up life
– Ernest Wit
park bench
someone else’s initials
between us
– Antoinette Cheung
her hair
blowing in the wind
kite strings
– Amber Winter
long night rain
a mugwort leaf
scents her pillow
– David He
lucky bamboo
she points with such
slender hands
– Chris Meadows
the snap
of a spider silk …
we will never meet again
– Tony Williams
house arrest
a blooming rose
in his bottle
– Carmela Marino
miscarriage
looking for answers
in a fogbow
– John Hawkhead
the silence
of a broken radio
summer drought
– Huck Tritsch
blood roses
a Bible salesman
at the door
– Steve Black
housing crisis
returning seashells
to the beach
– Kimberly Kuchar
toilet break
my opponent finds
a winning position
– Steve Black
winking at me —
not her
but her mother
– Bryan Rickert
nausea it ain’t easy being green
– susan burch
large Zen kit
peace and harmony
ten percent off
– Thomas Smith
climate change
tending
the lego garden
– Kelly Moyer
seesaw
the boy nouns
the girl’s verb
– Mike White
salty spring
the news
comes in waves
– Bonnie J Scherer
tuning out the rain
a blank page
more than once
– Gary Hotham
earthworm castings
scattered in the garden
language matters
– Brad Bennett
after the protest
a consensus of
pronouns
– Roberta Beary
election posters
the tattered promises
of last year
– Mike Gallagher
Global warming —
summer burns
into autumn
– M. R. Pelletier
presidential debate
the dissonant clatter
of silver spoons
– John Pappas
in light
of all we’ve been through
pink moon
– Michael Henry Lee
election day
the silence
on the street
– Govind Joshi
abracadabra —
cloak of invisibility
my silver hair
– kei andersen
modern love
a #hashtag
in the mehendi
– Kelly Moyer
growing older
one doctor’s appointment
at a time
– Nancy Orr
love letters
the scent of her
emojis
– Susan Yavaniski
buttercups
my age
rounded down
– Antoinette Cheung
breeze and blossoms
letting each other
be
– Srini
mulberry tree
slow to bud
two months along
– Suzanne Leaf-Brock
singing bowl
the owl’s
round note
– Barbara Sabol
at the seashore
a boy collects
feathers
– Charlotte Digregorio
mushroom hunter
not empty handed
wildflowers
– Randy Brooks
slipping into summer
a swallow among
the house martins
– Erica Ison
her dead child’s birthday
she lets go
of a balloon
– Alvin B. Cruz
planting
wildflowers
wildly
– Roberta Beach Jacobson
for the last time
beneath a white sheet
her bruised face
– Mark Miller
alone and sleepless …
yet the day
breaks into robinsong
– Chen-ou Liu
in recovery —
the addict takes out
knitting needles
– Terri L. French
a flow of people
with somewhere to go
passing by
– Annie Bachini
red light district
working the sidewalks
the street cleaner
– Mark Miller
carpetbagger statue
a few sprinklers
in dopesick park
– Jerome Berglund
first day sober —
deer take long drinks of
lake water
– Mark Smith
cocaine dealers exchanging blows
– susan burch
smiling
the x-ray technician
sees right through me
– Brendan McBreen
micromoon
slowly rotating
a meal-for-one
– petro c. k.
the scent
of the last person
down elevator
– Joseph P. Wechselberger
prothonotary warbler i’ll say it if you will
– Debbie Strange
take five
playing for time
in recovery
– Kathryn Liebowitz
pond koi
slowing their swim …
long night moon
– Terri L. French
Good Friday —
the undertaker
strolls to work
– sheenholt
moon shadows
the silent passage
of a masked owl
– Jo McInerney
turning into
Summer Road
the SLOW sign
– Keith Evetts
after stargazing
we pull the car over
to gaze again
– Lee Hudspeth
fibonacci
in a sunflower
golden hour
– Agnes Eva Savich
dog days the heat shimmer of distant stars
– Kristen Lindquist
summer solstice
gingerly unloading
the kiln
– Julie Schwerin
skipping stones
a child scatters
the night stars
– Mona Bedi
cubism
society boxes
me in
– Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
spring city stroll
more swagger then I feel
in my shadow
– Nathanael Tico
this urge to apologize
for things I didn’t do …
slow rolling fog
– Julie Bloss Kelsey
withered leaves —
the pregnancy test
it is negative
– Vincenzo Adamo
Goodwill a grinning clown shelved
– John Zheng
early winter —
the meals we haven’t eaten
since mom died
– Anthony Lusardi
50th Reunion —
our parting hugs
last longer
– Scott Mason
first to offer
condolences
mourning dove
– Sharon Martina
road trip
the distance between
tinted windows
– Mary Ann Conley
graveside —
this year’s guest list
more ebb less flow
– Roberta Beary
July
a forgotten Christmas elf
on the Norfolk pine
– Betsy Hearne
small feet
scatter leaves
playground graffiti
– Marilyn Humbert
family dinner
the space
a laugh creates
– Joanne van Helvoort
a toddler splashes
in the shallows
pink starfish
– Louise Hopewell
kitchen garden
under the leaves
grandma’s footprints everywhere
– Ram Chandran
by hand
crinkling the universe
onion skins
– Gary Hotham
my 70th
so many stars
candling the sky
– Barbara Sabol
rain slicked window
melting the moon
with my foggy breath
– Bracha K. Sharp
windblown grass
the weight
of her last breath
– Kelly Sargent
mighty mountain
scaling it inch by inch —
a toddler’s gaze
– Shruti Patel
flash mob
at the guppy pond
mayflies
– Marilyn Ashbaugh
rainy day
each kissing gate
with its own whine
– Ben Oliver
half a prairie dog
checking if it’s safe
for his other half
– petro c. k.
turnaround point
a pebble works its way
from heel to toe
– Debbie Olson
without shame
at the top of the agapanthus
two dragonflies
– Françoise Maurice
war news
bent by the wind
the wild flowers
– Mircea Moldovan
new subdivision
the cutout coyote
smells of urine
– Frank Higgins
double bass —
his mouth echoing
his fingers
– Owen Bullock
steamy window —
remembering
Tina Turner
– Manoj Sharma
mortar shells
between tire tracks
hot urine
– Vicki Miko
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