a new year
the woman with hope
releases
the ball
~Sharon Ferrante
ringling pizza banana bread party on the lake
~J. D. Nelson
end of the year —
I win the lottery
in Monopoly
~Maurizio Brancaleoni
2024
everyone with their new
year's resolutions,
and here i am just hoping 2024
will be kinder than 2023 was.
~linda m. crate
Call for Submissions
Could
2024 be the year? The Asahi Haikuist Network is requesting haiku for
the new
Anthropocene epoch. Send to David McMurray,
mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp.
flapping
as hard as I can
I kiss the street
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
fish sticks people inside of the radio
~J. D. Nelson
like a sturgeon divested of her eggs
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
soldering lamb the sleep of orion
~J. D. Nelson
Beatles
once there were four
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
science barn rowdy tree bug inside
~J. D. Nelson
i don’t know what got into me rum
~Julie Bloss Kelsey
she coughed
the whole time
viral video
~David C. Kopaska-Merkel
halting moving
along a window ledge in December
a fly, poor thing
~Steve Van Allen
Beaks of sandpipers poking into the sand
and dart off to chase the waves.
Eleven pipers piping
in the sea, swimming.
~Fhen M.
overstaying
your welcome—
roadkill raccoon
~Julie Bloss Kelsey
‘twas
a Phoenix, let it burn bright
illuminating our mind's dark
corners.
~Fhen M.
Award Season
Are
you aware individuals can nominate two haiku for a Touchstone Award? The deadline
nears, is Dec 31. Hurry! One
poem can be your own work, the other a poem you admire.
Publication must
have been during 2023.
Link
to the (google form) nomination:
https://docs.google.com/forms
/d/e/1FAIpQLScNLIih4nJItt0IonbySDfdAbn_JK4RuN4IVmLnD516ce9CJw/viewform
death
to parasites
you were a parasite
desperate to turn
every light into darkness,
but i have too many
feathers and have risen from
the ashes too many times
for you to win.
~linda m. crate
trash weeps a cloned carp
~J. D. Nelson
in an English Bath until I pruned
~J. D. Nelson
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