As LEAF our wonderful Journal of THE DAILY HAIKU enjoys its second year we have been invited to send in submissions to The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards and nominate haiku for the Red Moon Anthology.
Our talented and inspiring editor of LEAF Ravi Kiran has made 10 choices of haiku from LEAF Issues Three, Four and Five. Huge congratulations to those contributors who have been selected. Enjoy the stunning work here.
LEAF Issue Three
mountain cherry
our world budding
with war
Marilyn Ashbaugh
so pretty
in the rear-view mirror
my hometown
Timothy Daly
this marriage
not what I thought
prince c(harming)
Susan Burch
stirring ocean’s voice within seafood soup
Nitu Yumnam
old seed package
my best before date
approaching
Reid Hepworth
winter sun
the shadows cast
by past sins
Sangita Kalarickal
country churchyard
the lord of the manor’s name
unreadable
Keith Evetts
corn fields…
the scratch of the ballgame
on AM radio
Joshua Gage
long distance call
mum changes into
her telephone voice
Lori Kiefer
festival lights—
the circadian rhythm
of our dysfunction
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
LEAF Issue Four
another bell tolls…
a friend has gone to bed
with the wildflowers
Pris Campbell
earth music
how the birds
fill every note
Debbie Sterling
thunder snow
the percussion
of wakefulness
Roberta Beach Jacobson
an upturned beetle
on the red-oxide floor
lengthening shadow
Kala Ramesh
pulling the honeysuckle thread summer’s edge
Kelly Sargent
civil twilight
roosting quail
get themselves sorted
Cynthia Anderson
in the shade of a gnomon a jezebel’s wings
Arvinder Kaur
k1p1
k2 together —
forever
Bonnie J Scherer
ambulance
the whirl of brown leaves
in its slipstream
Keith Evetts
the light in her Alzeyemers
Timothy Daly
LEAF Issue Five
past her prime
a parched mushroom cap
fills with rainwater
Kelly Sauvage Moyer
winter pine boughs
the weight
of a child’s why
Kelly Sargent
winter twilight…
crows stop bothering
a honey buzzard
K. Ramesh
cold moon
the weight of my confession
in his silence
Fatma Zohra Habis
retreating
to my side of the bed
the comfort of moonlight
Wanda Amos
cliff walk
the mist between
words and deeds
Timothy Daly
dawn chorus
waking to the sound
of tinnitus
Elsje Winnubst
dripping tap
finally he speaks
of the bullies
Nitu Yumnam
a total eclipse
occasionally the moon
gets to have her way
Marcia Burton
sea breeze –
no voices to call me back
from the shore
C.X. Turner
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