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rainy afternoon
rainy afternoon…
how scattered the sky
in all those puddles
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Praniti Gulyani is from New Delhi, India. She likes writing haiku and haibun and has work featured in many online journals including Modern Haiku and Bones Haiku Journal. Praniti has also had her work selected for publication in the Red Moon Anthology by Jim Kacian.
we’re still expecting
we’re still expecting
some survivors home
-paper smoke
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Chibųìhè Obi has been published in Brittle Paper, Expound Magazine, Praxis, The Kalahari Review etc. A Pushcart nominee, he’s the winner of the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award, The Inaugral Babishai Niwe Haiku Prize, and currently on the Gerald Kraak award shortlist. He teaches Literature to high school students and is experimenting with micropoetry and minimalist photography.
stormwater drain
stormwater drain
men fishing
bodies
out
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Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy is a psychiatrist from Bengaluru India, living in England. A trained vocalist and a composer in Indian Classical Music, he writes in Kannada, Sankethi, Tamil and English languages. His haikai writings have been published in reputed journals and anthologies and won prizes, worldwide. He is currently the Editor of the Blithe Spirit, journal of The British Haiku Society.
Upside Down
What if the monster in your dream is just you?
same coin
the shadow
and the self
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Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is an award-winning poet who has been featured in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Acorn, Presence, and many other publications. She is the founder and director of The Co-op Poetry Lab. To read more of her work visit after pink.
on the edge of town
on the edge of town
coyotes
telling all our secrets
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Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and co-edits One Sentence Poems. Her chapbook, Various Lies, is available from Finishing Line Press.
Black ants carrying
a millipede body,
a paper dragon, bound
home from our festivals.
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Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo teaches at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and blogs at tekstong bopis. His works have appeared in Plural, Epizootics!, Transit, Bukambibig, {m}, and The Cabinet.
night party
night party
black insects crowd
a white bulb
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Blessed Ayeyame is a Nigerian who is fascinated by the written word, and he writes to share in this fascinating experience.
mosquitoes
mosquitoes…
pumpjacks plunge into
parched land
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Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry, has work published in Appalachian Heritage, New Mexico Review, Gnarled Oak, Third Wednesday, The Bookends Review, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/
old friends
old friends–
I add more sugar
to the tea cups
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David He has been working as an advanced English teacher for 35 years in a high school. So far he has had twenty short English stories published in anthologies. In recent years he has had haiku published in magazines like Acorn, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Rocket bottles, Frogpond, A One Hundred Gouges, Shamrock, First Literary Review-East, Modern Haiku, Frozen Butterfly and some international magazines. He has also had tanka published in Tanka of America, Skylark, Ribbones and Cattails. He lives in Gansu Province, China.