Last Dance
Haiku by Another Panoply of Poets
Allyson's Note: Thank you for another wonderful year of Haiku Girl Summer. As always, I am grateful to the readers, as a haiku is never finished until it is read. I am grateful to the poets who trust us with their work. I am grateful to the guest editors who bring their own approaches and aesthetics each week, making for a vibrant summer. And of course, I'm thankful to the tip jar contributors who give what they can to help us pay for web hosting and editor honoraria. And this year, I want to extend a special round of thanks to Richa Sharma who came on as the first Editorial Assistant. This year is all the more successful because of her efforts.
solar eclipse
shadow cast by
back-to-school
Margaret Anderson
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
a mood change
dancing in the wind
fairy lights
Jo Balistreri
Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
altostratus wheeling the watery sun westward
Daya Bhat
Bangalore, India
mayflies
the lightness
of a neonate
Bipasha Majumder (De)
Midnapore, West Bengal, India
clouds and contrails
a butterfly’s path through
the flowerbed
Cyndi Lloyd
Riverton, UT, USA
punctuating a sunny afternoon butterflies
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
air hot and still
a whisper could
ignite it
Mary Oishi
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
heatwave night
I turn the pillow
to nowhere cool
C.X. Turner
United Kingdom
sharing water
in the scorching sun
a limp plant and i
sumitra kumar
Chennai, India
extra innings
in the dog days
wild card race
Morag Elizabeth Humble
Ottawa, Canada
cabin mosquitoes
we brush away
thoughts of home
Karin Hedetniemi
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cumulus cloud
between departures
the blue
Nalini Shetty
Mumbai, India
sandy bay—
white butterfly fluttering
to the lateen sail
Anica Marcelic
Zapresic, Croatia
the trust
in my children's faces
sunflower field
Agnes Eva Savich
Austin, Texas, USA
owl in chorus
with a lone loon
edge of autumn
Sheikha A.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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.
Tip Jar
Haiku Girl Summer will always be a free publication. If you want to make a financial contribution, please visit Allyson Whipple’s Buy Me a Coffee page. Mention Haiku Girl Summer in the comment box and your donation will go into a pool that will be divided among the guest editors at the end of the 2026 editorial run.
Merch
If you want to even more ways to share the summer love, you can check out the Haiku Girl Summer merch shop. We have T-shirts and tank tops along with hats, mugs, buttons, and a spiral notebook. Email me if there are other items you’d like to see!
