Pop of Color

Haiku by Mary McCormack, Kelly Sargent, Barbara Grueger, Wilda Morris, and Lillian Nakamura Maguire

mountain path
poppies
for miles and miles

Mary McCormack

red tulips
against his cheek
a garden gnome’s grin

Kelly Sargent
Williston, Vermont, USA

fireweed is burning
in hot pink
a grey day illuminated

Barbara Grueger
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada

climbing
the sun-bleached barn
trumpet vine in bloom

Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA

Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth worked for the Penn State University Libraries for thirty-four years, seventeen of which were spent in the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, coordinating book and poetry awards and author events. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer, etc., and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG). In 2025, she served as a guest editor for Haiku Girl Summer.

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