long night moon
the old clock
ticks louder
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Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, the moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group, and a member of the Board of Directors for Haiku North America. Having published over 900 haiku over the last 15 years, her first full-length collection, highway of sleeping towns, was recently published by Shabda Press.
I kept losing my pencils at school. At first, dad would cut each pencil in half. Then mom threatened to tie the half-pencil to my button.
autumn pile
every leaf
finds its place
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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.
snow angel
two sticks from the woodpile
and a butterfly
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Tom Sacramona is a poet living in Plainville, Massachusetts. He is grateful to have haiku published in journals, such as bottle rockets, Mayfly and Modern Haiku. Sacramona is a member of the Boston Haiku Society and the Haiku Society of America. Learn more about haiku: Visit his blog at tomsacramona.wordpress.com
And when,
my castle was gone,
I brought the ocean home
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Chumki Sharma is a poet from Calcutta, India. Words are the only things eternal in a transient world and so she writes.
their affair
the pattern of stones
in a zen garden
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Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America and the moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. She has published over 900 haiku and other short poems in numerous journals both on and off the web.
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Marianne Paul is a Canadian novelist and poet who recently transitioned to short-form poetry, primarily haiku, senryu, haiga and haibun. She was the winner of the 2016 Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, multi-media category. Read more of her writing on twitter @mariannpaul, and on her website literarykayak.com.
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Debbie Strange is a widely published Canadian short form poet, haiga artist and photographer. Her first collection, Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads, is available through atlaspoetica.org. She invites you to visit her archive at debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca or on Twitter @Debbie_Strange.
fistfuls of hair
fall from her head
hope so small
it slides through
a needle’s eye
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Marilyn Fleming was raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. It was this small slice of life, living in nature, which often defines her work. Her poetry has been published in various international journals, and anthologies. She has a special interest in haiku and tanka, Japanese forms of poetry, and won her first prize in the Hildegarde Janzen Oriental Forms Award in 1988. She currently resides in Pewaukee, WI. Visit her online at marilynflemingpoet.wordpress.com.
a boy draws a bird
at an industrial station
bus window fog
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Nicholas Klacsanzky is the editor of Haiku Commentary and has been published in the top haiku and tanka journals, like Modern Haiku, Ribbons, The Mainichi, and Mayfly. He lives in Ukraine.
kite festival –
my whole crayon set
up in the sky
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Anthony Q. Rabang finished his BS Biology at the University of the Philippines – Baguio in 2015. He started writing haiku, senryu, and haibun while soul-searching in January 2016. He has poems published in the Asahi Haikuist Network, Failed Haiku, World Haiku Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Cattails, Wildplum, Akitsu Quarterly, Akisame, Makoto, Presence and Under the Basho. Website: Short Pauses
