“...I can now see the moon” — Mizuta Masahide

Haiku by Ruth Holzer, Christina Chin, Millicent Bee, Diane Webster, and Carla Schwartz

delaying
the journey I must make
Thunder Moon

Ruth Holzer
Potomac Falls, Virginia, USA

moon viewing
aroma of baked herbal
chicken in the wok

Christina Chin
Malaysia

skinny-dip
we venture deeper
treading moons

Millicent Bee
Richmond, Virginia, USA

full moon
opening chorus
of bullfrogs

Diane Webster
Delta, Colorado, USA

porch swing
I remember
how wide the moon

Carla Schwartz
Carlisle, Massachusetts and Meredith, New Hampshire, USA

Editor Bio: Dr. Sangita Kalarickal is a Pushcart Prize and Touchstone award nominated wordsmith. Her work has been widely published in several journals and anthologies. She has authored Mamina (Kavya-Adisakrit, 2023), and co-authored Light & Line Drawings (Kavya-Adisakrit, 2026), which are collections of free verse and haikai poetry. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Drifting Sands Haibun Journal.

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