haiku ripples
Haiku by Lakshmi Iyer, Sheza T., kjmunro, Marion Clarke, and Soumya Mukherjee
clean-up mask
the watermelon flavor
inside my nose
Lakshmi Iyer
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
grass blade green popsicle waterfall
Sheza T.
Pakistan
lake ripples
from jumping fish
we try to write haiku
kjmunro
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
the tip of my tongue numbed vanilla ice cream
Marion Clarke
Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland
conch sounds
filling the neighborhood
smell of mangoes
Soumya Mukherjee
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Editor Bio: Richa Sharma currently resides in the National Capital Region of India. Since 2019, her work has been published in many online and print journals, contests, and anthologies that focus on Japanese short-form poetry. Her detailed author biography is available on her personal blog:
https://richasharmahaiku.blogspot.com
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