all your broken promises cactus flowers
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Olivier Schopfer lives in Geneva, Switzerland, the city with the huge lake water fountain. He likes capturing the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 as well as in numerous online and print journals. He also writes articles in French about etymology and everyday expressions: olivierschopferracontelesmots.blog.24heures.ch
silver birch
throwing gold coins
to the winter sun
everything about you
makes me smile
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Caroline Skanne, Rochester, UK, is obsessed with anything wild and free. She is the founder of hedgerow: a journal of small poems. Find her @ facebook.com/
Note: ‘motionless’ is a found/erasure haiku from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Large Bad Picture”
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Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India. Her work appears in over two dozen international anthologies including publications by Paragram, Silver Birch Press, Minor Arcana Press, Harbinger Asylum, Kind of a Hurricane Press and Writing Knights Press among others. Her poems, erasures, haiku & tanka have appeared in numerous print and online journals. She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom.
night jasmine
for a few days I forget
about the moon
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Laura Williams has been studying and writing short form poetry since 2012. She lives in Southern California where it never rains. Visit her at Look for A Lovely Thing.
she’s here
a whirlwind light and fabulous then
she’s gone
how quiet the sound
of her dog’s wondering sigh
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Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
hibiscus and jasmine
the whiff of other places
in my tea
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Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and novelist. Recently, she has been focusing on minimalist poetry – primarily haiku and tanka. You can learn more about her work at mariannepaul.com or on Twitter @mariannpaul.
my shadow
accidentally
walking across
the white neighbor’s driveway …
he yells, Go back where you’re from
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Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize Winner, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards. Read more of his poems at Poetry in the Moment.
nail art-
the guitarist’s fingers flash
the colors of Advent
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Dr. Angelee Deodhar, an eye surgeon by profession, is a haiku poet, translator and artist from India. Her haiku, haibun, and haiga have been published internationally in various books, journals and on the internet. Her work has been translated into many languages including Japanese, Croatian, Romanian, Russian, German, French, Serbian and several Indian languages. She considers haiku to be a medium for international friendship and peace.
Threesome …
they lie in bed together
petting the cat
quarreling sparrows
the old woman says a gray dove
is their mother
Bright wind
a white cloud of ibis
touch the earth
Green trees
and silver clouds
no poems but this
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Kris Lindbeck writes haiku etc on Twitter @krislindbeck & recently published in M.Kei’s Bright Stars, Skylark Tanka, & an essay on senryu in Simply Haiku.
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Angie Werren lives (and writes) in a tiny house in Ohio. Sometimes she takes pictures of things in the yard.
