Muskaan Ahuja
summer breeze
grandpa exchanges his stick
for a paper kite
Lakshmi Iyer
stray 's banquet
the hardened crust
of a dinner roll
Barrie Levine
alone on the train this stranger marching towards me
Lev Hart
old lava
the origin stories
of my faults
Cynthia Anderson
sacred space
in an earthen pot ... a tune
from a shakuhachi
Kala Ramesh
a few gravitational arcs in her signature
Roberta Beach Jacobson
ripples...
the call and response
of fish crows
Brad Bennett
haikuPrakash - Enlightenment
wormhole
imagining the other side
of death
John Hawkhead
babbling brook…
her problems
bigger than mine
Jan Stretch
crack in the stone —
an ancient monster
revealed
Allison Douglas-Tourner
planting seeds
the flowers she will
never see
Stephanie Zepherelli
forgetting
what I have forgotten
rainstorm
Perry L. Powell
purple finch
how could it be
anything else
John Pappas
bread and patty
the secrets
between us
Raja Chakraborty
a secret revealed ...
wildflowers
sway in the breeze
Daniela Misso
a neon sign
flicks off at dawn
what I meant to say
Barrie Levine
autumn breeze —
we talk about
the afterlife
Mona Bedi
more to you
than I thought
false summit
Edward Cody Huddleston
funeral
firewood crackles
the sandal fragrance
Lakshmi Iyer
butterfly
mulling over
her zodiac sign
Manoj Sharma
what’s done
is done
evening primrose
Joshua St. Claire
deep in the heat of things ocean's collapse
Roberta Beach Jacobson
got the itch
to garden again
chiggers
JL Huffman
autumn lake –
these drowning thoughts
of mine
Paul Callus
a parijat today gone tomorrow the remains
Kala Ramesh
my shadow
over lavender
a spider retreats
Marilyn Ward
this nightmare
of feeling wanted
a loner finch
Mike Gallagher
intermittent cooing
of the house pigeons
monsoon wind
Hifsa Ashraf
this silence
between me and the crescent
a barn owl
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
thistle
every mistake
made again
Rowan Beckett
monsoon breeze
I change
my mind
Amita Paul
fallen leaves -
all the words
I didn't say
Giuliana Ravaglia
the sound of a hoe
weeding the temple garden —
summer afternoon
George Goldberg
bumpy flight
I give a tarot reading
to the monk
Sharon Ferrante
sunflower field
a little girl walks
towards the sun
Daniela Rodi
gusty wind
only the magpie song
holds steady
Louise Hopewell
desert tortoise
no longer sticking
my neck out
Cynthia Anderson
nature hike -
she zips up
her sadness
Timothy Daly
in the garden
digging
into a new book
Wilda Morris
walking the middle way
I pick up
my cross
Nick Gutierrez
dandelion
all that remains
of my dreams
Rosa Maria Di Salvatore
getting
back on track
scent of pine
Ernesto P. Santiago
a dragonfly
on the windowsill
time passes by
Minal Sarosh
herbal tea
flowers that died
to soothe me
Pris Campbell
shafts of light
a leaf clings
to the pear stem
Brad Bennett
rising mist -
a frog croaks
on the lilypad
Katherine E Winnick
counting koi
a grey heron swoops
into my ohm
Michael Smeer (Mikō)
between the wind and me whose breath
Isabella Mori
haikuDrishti - The Observation
xtite ngAnn Smith
she rolls
a perfect roti
full moon
Rupa Anand
wildfire rain
the fresh face
of a star
Marilyn Ashbaugh
rice song
her mud-laden feet
in the clouds
Arvinder Kaur
foxgloves
higher than the fence -
summer solstice
Maire Morrissey Cummins
homesick
an old swing
in the yard
Jovana Dragojlovic
bus stop bench
a young man
injects his arm
Tuyet Van Do
beach shells —
arranging our new pattern
of constellation
Beata Czeszejko
deep throat
the swan swallows
a crab apple
Kimberly A. Horning
autumn snowfall ...
a handful
of frozen butterflies
Dorna Hainds
orphanage park —
a gentle breeze tousles
the child's hair
Mirela Brailean
last day of summer
the lifeguard releases
his man bun
Joseph P. Wechselberger
bangle seller —
the colours of a rainbow
on her wrist
Mona Bedi
annaprashana
the tinkling of her anklets
sweetens the kheer
Debarati Sen
semolina
in the enamel bowl
dad's dinner
Bernadette O'Reilly
a crocodile
half-submerged
unmoving
Marilyn Humbert
World Yoga Day -
my cat
licks her butt
Sukla Singha
starlight
their backs
almost touch
Greg Schwartz
neither of us
says a word
Mount Nittany
Joshua St. Claire
departure lounge -
old woman snoring
wakes herself up
Marc Brimble
creeping
in and out of darkness
hunter's moon
Louise Hopewell
coriander pot
after the night rain
snails
Christina Chin
reaching up
to knead my cheek
purring cat
Eavonka Ettinger
surface tension
the curve
of her smile
Mark Hitri
back to earth
in two minutes...
the piano player
Patricia Davis
a water strider
skates across the cloud
silver lining
Ruth Happel
night platform
a little girl sings lori
to her doll
Sudebi Singha
early frost. . .
my body older
than it should be
Rowan Beckett
bloodroot blooms
the girl wearing a lavender ribbon
sits up
Bipasha Majumder De
summer morning
cupped in lupine leaves
water droplets
Nancy Brady Smith
two old pros
grandma haggles
with the fish vendor
Barrie Levine
revising
my river poem...
spring break
Srini
one by one
birds scatter
seedhead
Jerome Berglund
a t-shirt covers the student's head blown o ff
Lev Hart
peaches and plums —
preserving the sweetness
of childhood
Bonnie J Scherer
masala chai
grandma pauses to wipe
her moist eyes
Minal Sarosh
blue moon
her husband folds
the laundry
Genevieve S. Aguinaldo
summer morning
without notice, this teen
turns her bicycle
Amoolya Kamalnath
August rain
the neighbour's wash
full of drips
Marilyn Ward
window shopping
I keep staring at
my own image
Padmasiri Jayathilaka
her first reward
from the tooth fairy -
piggy bank stash
Gillena Cox
pamplemousse
rolling off her tongue
citric tang
JL Huffman
beached
the bloated sunfish
lures a crowd
Carly Siegel Thorp
family photo
after a day of sorting
family history
Susan Bonk Plumridge
summer dawn
grandma shakes
the pickle jar
Hifsa Ashraf
boys' day out
the common wish
of a mansion
Aparna Pathak
cricket moon
a basket of laundry
on the terrace
Daniela Misso
early winter
grandma knits
my new sweater
Anwitha Sudeep
hand on heart
I believe his promises
cardiac surgeon
Patricia Hawkhead
each object with a different absence
Vijay Prasad
haikuJyoti - The Third Eye
a rain-bent hibiscus
after the diagnosis
Amoolya Kamalnath
albatross
the scar on the back
of her head
Sue Courtney
the roar
in my sneeze–
tiger lily
Michael Smeer (Mikō)
salmon moon...
trickling waterfall echoes
fill the gully
Rob McKinnon
over-steeped tea
last night's fight
clogs my tastebuds
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
watercolour sky
searching my palette
for other than blue
Patricia Hawkhead
flock of crows
on the railway
a white shoe
Mircea Moldovan
summer rain
tomato vines stretch
into July
Roberta Beach Jacobson
back alley
two shopping buggies strike
a deal
Lev Hart
worry stone scouring the shoreline for solace
Peter Jastermsky
the sting
of a failed marriage
lemon peel
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
cemetery visit
a layer of leaves covers
my name
Joseph P. Wechselberger
age-spotted hands
the ache in her guitar
strings
Randy Brooks
shifting home
I wrap mother's silences
in her pashmina
Arvinder Kaur
the erection and castration of a word
Vijay Prasad
the black fringe
of her gypsy scarf
swallowtail
Colette Kern
dark-eyed junco
she says she needs a ride
to meet a friend
Joshua St. Claire
willow seeds float
on the breeze...
summer confetti
Sue Wood
a few coins
tinkling in his rusty can
autumn rain
Robert Witmer
she smiles at me
from across the classroom
quantum entanglement
Ger Jonker
sturgeon moon—
a tramp rummages
for his livelihood
Neena Singh
blue sky
a beetle wriggling
on its back
Tony Williams
all around
his gravestone
spring violets
John Pappas
moonlit face
I wish I were
a white moth
Ranice Tara
layers of dust
on the dressing table
chemotherapy
Sanjay Kumar Sanan
the soft feel
of wrinkled skin -
birthday sex
Isabella Mori
sienna earth
the distant drip-drip
of a tap
Kavita Ratna
monsoon breeze
a wisp of freshness
in my jasmine tea
Hla Yin Mon
alpine sunrise
the red of the dirt
at your nape
B.L. Bruce
granite pinnacles the span of a mountain goat
Chad Lee Robinson
swallowing my pride -
an inland breeze
escorts me home
Paul Callus
railway station
each window frames
an untold story
Kala Ramesh
intersections
on the road ahead
ending summer
Jelena Kenic
widower's house
a crystal vase fills
with cigarette ash
Sanjuktaa Asopa
rainstorm
the many ways
a tree sings
Pris Campbell
two alligators
face to face
storm clouds
Naomi G. Tangonan
green grass
the hidden song
of a cricket
Marilyn Ward
midsummer heat —
the smell of spices
from mom's dupatta
Hifsa Ashraf
15th August morning -
a street child picks up
the torn flag
Sukla Singha
wet moon ...
the ebb and flow
of nostalgia
Lorelyn Arevalo
wisps of cobweb
along the bridge
spring training
Jerome Berglund
train journey
with a stranger
wild lilies
Bidyut prabha Gantayat
somewhere the sound of unwinding a nightjar
C.X. Turner
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