Issue 39

Return to Haiku Journal Homepage --- or --- Go Back to Table of Contents


Issue 39

POETS

Abaldo, Sherry
Adegbola, Oluseyi
Agnew, Zach
Barnett, Sandra
Bracale, Ron
Campion, Patricia
Cates, Anna
Crockford, C.m.
Cunio, Troy
Dafoe, Zach
Dolen, Dan
Dougherty, Katryn
Drobot, Ana
Eng, Linda
Esposito, Lynette
Gentry, Susan
Gleason, Annmarie
Hellweg, Paul
Huddleston, Cody
Jones, Kate
Kasai, Kirsten I
Kozma, Joseph J
Lake, Lindsay
Melton, Bill
Miller, Dean
Mitchell, Elizabeth
Nicholls, Darren
Paquette, Michele
Patterson, Melissa
Peters, Iris
Pierre, Terese
Piet, Dottie
Ramer, Jessica
Reed Thieman, Shelly
Robinson, Jackie Maugh
Rojas, Emily
Rossi, Patricia
Schutter, Mary R. P.
Scully, Ron
Smith, Mary
Smith, Tim
Snyder, Tammy
West, Tyson
White, Leonard
Zempel, Rachel





Zach Agnew




Birds quietly chirp
As grass sways gently in time
Mice pause to listen





Dean Miller




Snow melt swells river
Spring flows scour the landscape
Fish find calm water





Lindsay Lake




three golden trees sway
atop the steep river bank
haunting mute children





Leonard White




My fix is your lips
Addiction to supple flesh
The drug on my mind





Darren Nicholls




darkness wraps the mind
fighting for the light again
winter takes it all





Patricia Rossi




autumn palette hues
nature's amber draped canvas
masterpiece of leaves





Ron Bracale




in space, riding time,
spiraling Breath of Passion
entwined deep within





Joseph J Kozma




Tide is moving in
Crabs find shelter in the sand
Fullest moon ever





C.M. Crockford




Hot pavement and tar,
The wind waving, knocking on
Bristling green birch trees.





Patricia Campion




Steel-blue dragon fly
Where river ends earth begins
Draws widening loops





Tim Smith




inebriated
consoled by the blood red moon
thoughts of you be still





Terese Pierre




A small petal falls
On the surface of a pond,
Disturbing its sleep.





Elizabeth Mitchell




Naked, her breathing
Heavy. He moved in rhythm.
Shards of ecstasy.





Bill Melton




Billow of fragrance
Wafting sultry summer breeze
Honeysuckles bloom





Kirsten I Kasai




a fragile little
flower?fragrant, small and pale
you, an edelweiss





Zach Agnew




The night sky whispers
A single star twinkles bright
Earth can't hear her call





Emily Rojas




You lit a candle
Shining with prospect and thrill
It burned within me





Shelly Reed Thieman




Sun freckles shoulders
captive five months to cashmere
Sweaters hibernate





Ana Drobot




hippies at night gig -
beating to different rhythms
the wind and their hearts





Lindsay Lake




dandelion seed
buried in the other side
lying beside moon





Sherry Abaldo




rare morning thunder
biblical sky pelts glass rain
all the leaves look sharp





Tammy Snyder




Hummingbirds dancing
Ballet to the beat of wings
In the air above





Tammy Snyder




Watching flames turn bright
Nature has many meanings
I sat and wondered





Lynette Esposito




Birds whisper sweet songs
hidden voices in the bark
a choir brings day.





Mary R. P. Schutter




Fragrance like sweet tea,
The first rose of spring blushes
Warm pink in the sun.





Ron Scully




the Northern Kingdom
snow bound moonlight hardening
where dreams are buried





Ron Scully




beneath an old moon
Pemigewasset gabbles-
riverrocks rounding





Tyson West




naked at nineteen
sand litters damp moonlit sheets
our endless summer





Iris Peters




Cirrocumulus
Dressed to the nines and waltzing
Dancers in the storm





Iris Peters




Fragile violets
Hid in wind-sheltered niches
Conquer hostile rocks





Anna Cates




October twilight
white pines fogged with lake water
a distant chain saw





Rachel Zempel




fog stretches across
the morning water garden
flower lilies float





Jessica Ramer




In Anchorage snow
before the false-front saloon,
bottlenecks glitter.





Jackie Maugh Robinson




javelina naps
under the Sonoran sun-
blue agave haze





Michele Paquette




Eagles soar so high
Sentinels in the blue sky
Feathers drift - a Gift!





Dan Dolen




brown hands grew these grapes
infused with earth water sun
wine our sacrament





Linda Eng




A sweet berceuse sung
Softly lulling her to sleep
A poisonous tune





Mary Smith




I hold you at length
Yet my whole life is a lie
Deception is great





Cody Huddleston




They're hitching a ride
on the alligator's back.
A pair of turtles.





Zach Dafoe




anonymity
living with no fingerprints,
no children in tow





Melissa Patterson




The colors of dusk
settle over my small town
I scratch a lotto





Katryn Dougherty




gnarled and twisted
more knots with each year of growth
deformed by old age





Troy Cunio




Afternoon- sunshine.
Here come the daily rainclouds,
like jealous lovers.





Annmarie Gleason




Gusts of wind blow cold
Blanketing life with stillness
Whisking away souls





Kate Jones




anticipation
summer is finally here
and gone in a flash





Dottie Piet




rasp of cicadas
vibrates through the evening heat
rattles the dishes





Susan Gentry




perceptions of truth
distortion of memory
feelings are not facts





Oluseyi Adegbola




Rivulets of rain
Will revitalize the green-
Death is but transit-





Paul Hellweg




mountain alpenglow
addicted to sweet rosebuds
all dreams a treasure





Sandra Barnett




Japanese maple --
the garden Buddha's Bodhi
in late summer light