A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY!
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These poems have been pulled from my ever-growing document of favorite haiku. Some I have admired for years, while others I have newly discovered. This is the joy of poetry, as of life: its ever-changing course of discovery. I encourage all readers of poetry to keep such a file. As far as has been possible, I have obtained permission from the writers to share them. – Paul Miller (paul m.)
-- Paul Miller (paul m.)
1 Billie Wilson
First Place 2003 Harold Henderson Award
whalebone
from a beach near Savoonga—
winter rain
2
Mike Taylor
Modern Haiku 19.3 (1988)
the bluest sky through the noose
3
Bob Boldman
Cicada 4:4 (1980)
leaves blowing into a sentence
4
Carolyn Hall
Calculus of Daylilies (2017)
a shovelful
of rattlesnake
the long day
5
GRIX
The New Green (2021)
learning the pine needles in my spine
6
Brad Bennett
A Drop of Pond (2016)
a swan
flies over the pond
bones whistling
7
Bill Cooper
Tending Gumbo. (2020)
over the egg
that never opens
fresh grass
8
Katō Shūson
Modern Japanese Haiku, trans. Makoto Ueda (1976)
I kill an ant
and realize my three children
have been watching
9
Lee Gurga
Modern Haiku 24.3 (1993)
burying the horse’s
afterbirth —
summer heat
10
Steve Hodge
Frogpond 39.2 (2016)
third deployment
the unfinished dollhouse
beneath a sheet
11 Kanchan Chatterjee
Scattered Leaves (2020)
between thunder claps …
the front door’s
soft creak
12 Eve Luckring
Heron's Nest XVII:3 (2015)
if trees could be landlords
13 Cherie Hunter Day
Modern Haiku 43:1 (2012)
winding road
for the next eight miles
Coltrane
14 John Barlow
2006 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award, Second Place
the piano hammers
barely moving …
night snow
15
Thomas Powell
Clay Moon (2020)
year’s end frost
the field with a cattle trough
empty of cattle
16
Chiyo-ni
Woman Haiku Master, trans. Patricia Donegan (1998)
to the one breaking it—
the fragrance
of the plum
Each one is worth reading again and again. Savoured all of them. Thank you for sharing these!
Lovely poems. Thank you for sharing!
I took my time reading through all the poems to let each one soak into my veins. 🙂
All are incredible! Thank you for sharing!