love note
in my textbook
bookmarking
our time
our puppy love
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Christina Sng is a poet, writer, and artist. Her first haiku chapbook, A Constellation of Songs, was recently published by the Origami Poems Project. Visit her at christinasng.com.
Archives
a new silk scarf
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Mary Kendall lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband and her dog. Mary is a retired teacher. Her poetry has appeared in many online and print journals and she is the author of Erasing the Doubt, published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. Mary is co-author of A Giving Garden published in 2009. Her poetry blog is A POET IN TIME.
in your old backyard
in your old backyard
all the frogs we caught
have gone
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Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco co-edits One Sentence Poems and lives in California’s Central Valley. She is tired of smoke from wildfires.
monsoon
monsoon
silence fermenting
in the prayer book
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Goran Gatalica (Virovitica, Croatia, 1982.) graduated physics and chemistry at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb after which he entered doctoral study. He publishes poetry, haiku and prose in literary magazines, journals and anthologies. He has won several awards for poetry and haiku in Croatia and abroad. He is a member of the Croatian Writers’ Association.
on that bench
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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 Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words or on Twitter @Debbie_Strange.
still not yet done
still not yet done
with his youth
an old man
passing smoke
through his nose
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Adjei Agyei-Baah is co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and Poetry Foundation Ghana. He also serves as the co-editor of Mamba Journal, Africa’s first haiku periodical and champions an avant-garde type of haiku dubbed “Afriku,” which seeks to project the unique sights, sounds, and settings of Africa. His short Japanese poetry form has appeared in many international journals. He was picked for the Editors’ Choice Award at Cattails and The Heron’s Nest Journal and is the winner of The Heron’s Nest Award, March 2016 and the Akita Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Award of the 3rd Japan-Russia Haiku Contest, 2014. Adjei recently released his first haiku collection Afriku, published by Red Moon Press (2016) in the US and hopes to publish more collections as well of the other short forms of Japanese poetry.
dark water
dark water
my ambiguous
mammogram
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Martha Magenta lives in England, UK. Her poems focus on a wide variety of topics including love, loss, spirituality and meditation. Recently, she has begun to write haiku. A number of her poems and haiku have been published in online journals. She is co-owner of POETS, the second largest poetry community on Google Plus.
tequila sunset
tequila sunset
asleep in the rocker
before nine
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Christina Sng is a poet, writer, and artist. She lives in Singapore with her family and their cat Kit. Visit her online at christinasng.com.
old footbridge–
old footbridge–
the school kids busy counting
cherry blossoms
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Pravat Kumar Padhy, a poet-scientist, did his Masters and Ph.D from IIT-Dhanbad, India. Work referred in Spectrum History of Indian Literature in English, Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Poetry etc. His Japanese short form poetry has appeared in many international journals. His poetry has won the Editors’ Choice Award at Asia-American Poetry, Poetbay, USA; Writers’ Guild of India; the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Canada; UNESCO International Year of Water Co-operation; and the Kloštar Ivanić International Haiku Commendation award. Songs of Love: A Celebration, published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta is his latest collection of poetry.
prairie storm
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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.
