Bare Feet
Haiku by Lisa Billa, Victoria Hat, Cynthia Anderson, Violet Avery Hall, and Petra Schmidt
barefoot race across sun-baked sand fleeting afternoons
Lisa Billa
San Jose, California, USA
beads of sweat roll out
sparrows chatter in the shade
cool grass on bare feet
Victoria Hat
Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA
happy-go-lucky
the slap of bare feet
against tile floors
Cynthia Anderson
Yucca Valley, California, USA
bare feet
at the beach bar
cherry limeade
Violet Avery Hall
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
at last
we slow dance
in our bare feet
Petra Schmidt
Catonsville, Maryland, USA and Koblenz, Germany
Editor Bio: Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests, one was turned into a choral piece and one has ridden on a bus in Racine, Wisconsin. Jennifer has 15 books of poetry and over 3,300 published poems. Jennifer’s favorite poems are the ones written on the back of an envelope at a red light.
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