Hit Singles
Haiku by a Panoply of Poets
& just when i can't think anymore moon jellyfish
Kirsten Cliff Elliot
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
burrs in my boots rumination
Tracy Royce
Los Angeles, California, USA
straying from the coastline dog rose
Kelly Sargent
Williston, Vermont, USA
cut grass taste en plein air smoothies
Sandra St-Laurent
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
sky-shine rising from the river kingfisher
Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
buckthorn thicket nothing follows the catbird into it
Sally Biggar
Topsham, Maine, USA
sunflowers we decide the subject is exhausted
Sandra Simpson
New Zealand
patch of poppies her voice straying in the wind
Katherine E Winnick
Brighton, UK
migraine too muchness of a koel’s song
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, India
the daydream blooming all around me irises
Mary McCormack
La Grange Park, Illinois, USA
swan lake prelude too close to the dance of wings
Joy Hallinan
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
slugs the length of this sodden track
Helen Buckingham
Wells, Somerset, UK
playing a salty tune on an ear of corn
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
boys we don’t kiss only the humid air
Adele Gallogly
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
crowded island in the hot sand tiny purple blooms
Margaret Anderson
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
moonbeam the dove towing a star
Sheza T.
Pakistan
holding a feather my fingers trill
Betsy Hearne
Urbana, Illinois, USA
ephemeral water in the desert spadefoot toad calls
Janet Ruth
Corrales, New Mexico, USA
undulating in the pool bee wings
Sarah Paris
Santa Rosa, California, USA
simmering twilight singing blackbird shroud of overcast
Sheikha A.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
monopoly board wars the cool basement
Julie Ann Espinoza
Los Angeles, California, USA
strewn gulmohar handfans
Anju Kishore
Bengaluru, India
pulling up the brambles bleeding heart missing
Carla Schwartz
Carlisle, Massachusetts and Meredith, New Hampshire, USA
Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer. Her newest chapbook, Lunch Poems, is available from Brooks Books. She will have the manuscript of A Culinary Saijiki completed before her wedding this fall.
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