Lakeside

Haiku by Wendy Cobourne, Rebecca Upjohn, Kim Klugh, Fatma Zohra Habis, and Kathryn P. Haydon

listening
to my inner voice
pink conch shell

Wendy Cobourne
Homestead, Florida, USA

blue lip girls
refusing to give up
the lake

Rebecca Upjohn
Harrisville, New Hampshire, USA

sea shells
sorting out
her brokenness

Kim Klugh
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

walking the shore—
these waves echo
our old conversations

Fatma Zohra Habis
Algiers, Algeria

the way the lake
sorts litter
seaglass

Kathryn P. Haydon
Chicagoland, Illinois, USA

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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