#ThrowbackFriday
Haiga by Kimberly Kuchar and C. X. Turner, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Mariya Gusev, Marietta McGregor, Urszula Marciniak
after laughter chain links
Poem: C. X. Turner
Photo: Kimberly Kuchar
cooling effect . . .
the jingle-jangle tune
of an ice cream truck
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
our rented beach house
each year on a different street
a place to grow up
Mariya Gusev
Sterling, Virginia, USA
first party dress
mother up sewing long
after midnight
Marietta McGregor
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Editor Bio: A member of the Austin Haiku Group and a psychic artist, Melanie Alberts is writing a spiritual memoir combining haibun, tanka prose, and haiga. Her haiga galleries can be found on The Haiku Foundation website. She is a contributing editor of Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief. Melanie enjoys following fellow haiku writers, artists, psychics, and mediums from around the world on Instagram: @clair.circles.spirit.art
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Merch
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