Night Heron
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA small silence –a night heron ensnaredin fishing wire First published in Plum Tree Tavern, 2015
Landfill Overflow
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA landfill overflow . . .a praying mantisbows its head A version of this haiku…
Manatee
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA crescent moon –a scarred manatee nurses her calf First published in Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and…
Hunter Moon
By R. Suresh babuChikmagalur, Karnataka, India hunter moona rhinowithout his horn
From a Sphere
By Diana WebbLeatherhead, Surrey, UK Sylvie is doing her English homework. She skims through 'Ode to a Nightingale' by the…
T Minus 10
By Richard Grahn Evanston, Illinois, USA Spaceman, always looking up, a compass with no needle, lost it shooting up. Always…
When you take sides
By Tazeen FatmaKarnataka, India A woman sits on rubble, her crimson eyes staring into yours. No one is left to…
Tipping Point
By Jenny Ward Angyal Gibsonville, North Carolina, USA diving into the cold depths of fear . . . until I…
Manifesto
By Jenny Ward Angyal Gibsonville, North Carolina, USA jack in his woodland pulpit preaches . . . the right of…
Gaia
by Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA a boulder lieswhere the glacier left it—clear as crystalthe old crone’s memoryof fire…
Tsunami
By Padma RajeswariMumbai, India hearing the roarin dreamsTsunami survivor
Memoji
By Padma RajeswariMumbai, India a memoji call with dad hiding the bruises
Haiga Challenge 1 – Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta (Artwork)Anju Kishore (Poem) Anju’s Comments: To me, Sankara’s haiga feels like a song, perfectly balancing light and dark,…
Haiga Challenge 1 – Marilyn Ashbaugh
Marilyn Ashbaugh (Artwork)Anju Kishore (poem) Editor’s Comments: This haiga spoke to me in that the discarded eggshell not only conjures the…
Haiga Challenge 1 – Reid Hepworth
Reid Hepworth (Artwork)Anju Kishore (Poem) Anju’s Comments: Reid’s haiga makes me think of drooping eyelids, heavy with sleep. Or hunger. Or…
Butterfly Effect
By Sankara Jayanth SudanaguntaHyderabad, India How big does humanityneed the inciting incident to beto actlike we are all in thistogether…
Finding Good Soil
By Tish DavisConcord Township, Ohio, USAA few rose petals have fallen away from the vase that rests on the patient’s…
Blue Butterfly
By Kelly SargentWilliston, Vermont, USA my granddaughter learnsthe word extinct —blue butterfly Learn about the Xerces blue butterfly on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerces_blue
Brother of the Sea
By Tish DavisConcord Township, Ohio, USA Lake Erie—blue water and sky become one. I sit in the sand not farfrom…
Black Gold
Stephanie Zepherelli Honolulu, Hawaii, USA black gold pelicans fighta slow death