Monday, December 16, 2013

Haiku by Yasmin Khan


the falling snow
covers everything in white--
a polar bear yawns
 
 
tequila sunrise
hangover at horizon
cherry, orange dawn
 
 
 

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen


wasp nests and prayer flags
a quiet co-existence
beneath the same roof 



ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs), x-hospice nurse, editor of print publication bear creek haiku (23+ years/115+ issues), his poetry’s homes include Lilliput Review, Yellow Mama, Verse Wisconsin, Shamrock and Shemom, he has earned cherished awards, and, participated in anthologies - his poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart and Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling and has released a selection from 36 poets titled The Bear Creek Anthology - beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, assistant Frosty, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)
 

Friday, November 8, 2013

Haiku by Alek Barkats


5ive syllable hook
Se7en syllable image        n
Then end with a  t         r
                                u


sleePMapnia
 
woke with the highway
interstate system drawn up
and down my body


Alek Barkats is a second grade teacher in Washington, D.C. He has had poetry and fiction published in 48hour Magazine and Ostrenenie Magazine.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Haiku by Les Merton


damp with tears our song
plays on as it slowly drys
in the summer breeze
 
 
 
an owl’s ghostly flight
the thin curl of a new moon
winter glittering
 
 
 
Les Merton’s writing has appeared in magazines, anthologies and on web sites around the world. He has also written 20 books and is the founder/editor of Poetry Cornwall.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Haiku by Sara Bickley


It is not true that
all toast lands butter side down.
Not all toast gets dropped.
 
 
 
Sara Bickley is a student at the University of Montana. Her very short poems have previously appeared in Every Day Poets, High Coup Journal, and Three Line Poetry.
 
 
 

Monday, September 30, 2013

Haiku by Melissa Davis

 
staring at the twists
of a thousand year oak tree
I am a zygote
 
 
Melissa Davis is a doctoral student and teacher. She has had poems and fiction pieces published with journals such as Leaves of Ink and The Circle Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in journals such as the American Reading Forum Yearbook and The Commonline Journal.
 

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Haiku by Kim Peter Kovac


shimmering sunlight
on the waves of the river
eyes squinting from glare


the crisp morning wind
ruffling the dog's shaggy fur
rainstorm approaches


writing poetry
in a specified structure:
what liberation!


the writing of verse
while seeking out the quirky
how lovely and fun



Kim Peter Kovac lives in Alexandria, VA, and works nationally/internationally in theater for young audiences with an emphasis on new play development and networking.  His work is forthcoming or can be found in HowlRound, The Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Crack the Spine, Eunoia Review, Crunchable, Glint Literary Journal, The Metric, Mad March Hare, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Modern Day Fairytales, Haiku Journal, and Write Local Play Global.  www.kimpeterkovac.tumblr.com
 

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Two Haiku by Denny E. Marshall



Her eyes flash like stars
Little diamonds shinning bright
Yet so far away



Heart grows silver wings
Soars up high into the clouds
Rain of pumping beats




Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.






Friday, August 30, 2013

Haiku by Sue Neufarth Howard


White petals in the night wind,
seeds of stars sprinkled
in moonlit silver gardens.


Wild, wet, naked joy;
oh to be five once again,
dancing in the rain.




These were previously published on the "Virtual Haiku" site on Facebook.



Sue Neufarth Howard - Poet

Cincinnati native, published poet, visual artist, former business writer in marketing and
sales training; retired.

Graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (Speech-Radio/TV) and University
of Cincinnati Evening College (Associate in Art).

 Member, Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL) and Colerain Artists.
Received Third Prize and/or Honorable Mention in several Ohio Poetry Day
Contests since 1998.  1983 Poet Laureate for Clifton Heights/Fairview - Cincinnati
Recreation Commission Neighborhood Poetry Contest.

Poems published in the Journal of Kentucky Studies - 25th Anniversary Edition;
the Mid-America Poetry Review; Nomad's Choir; The Incliner - Cincinnati Art Museum;
the Creative Voices Anthology of the Institute for Learning in Retirement, City of
Cincinnati; in several For a Better World - Poems on Peace and Justice by Greater
Cincinnati Artists anthologies; and Poetic Hours Magazine, Carlton, England.
Poetry chapbooks self published via Lulu.com in 2012: TreeScapes, EarthWords,
and In and Out of the Blue Zoo.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Haiku by Les Merton


relaxing
om meditation
peace on earth
 
 
man and cormorant
fishing the river together
old Chinese ways live
 
 
ring the temple bell
every morning in India
the Gods will hear you
 
 
 
 
Les Merton became a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow for services to Cornish Literature in 2004; his Bardic name is Map Hallow (Son of the Moors). He is an award winning poet and the founder editor of Poetry Cornwall. He has 20 books to his credit including these poetry collections: Cornflakes and Toast, Light the Muse, As Yesterday Begins, Dreckly - a collection of possibilities. He  has also been the editor of the following poetry anthologies: 101 Poets for a Cornish Assembly, Great Trees of Cornwall and Cornwall an anthology of poems and poetry.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall



Planets without hate
Would that be science fiction?
Or a fantasy




Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, fiction, or articles published.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Haiku by Jacob Dodson


the sunset
knows I've been staring
she blushes
 
 
summer's heat
I'm nostalgic for
bluebonnets
 
 
 
Jacob Dodson is an Austin poet who wants to write prettier nature haiku. His work has appeared in Pank, The Legendary, Airplane Reading, Minglewood and Out of Print.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Haiku by Jacob Dodson


Pick-Up Haiku
 
 
you on a diet?
'cause you're not the only one
watching your figure
 
 
give some pity sex?
some say I look best wearing
nothing but a frown
 
 
hey babe, I would kill
everyone in this room to
be alone with you
 
 
 


Jacob Dodson is an Austin poet who wants to write prettier nature haiku. His work has appeared in Pank, The Legendary, Airplane Reading, Minglewood and Out of Print.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Haiku by April Salzano


Choose to think he can,
or choose to think he cannot.
He will prove you right.
 


Pac Man, Mario,
noises that reverberate.
Rock, block, flap, jump, stim.


 
Same sentence over
and over stuck on repeat
comfort one more time
 


It’s loud, I like it.
Too much is never enough
to fill my silence.
 


Developmental
delay. Axis II deferred.
Only time will tell.





April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania and is working on her first several collections of poetry and an autobiographical novel on raising a child with Autism. Her work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, Ascent Aspirations, The Applicant, The Mindful Word, Deadsnakes, Winemop, Daily Love, Visceral Uterus, and many others.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Haiku by Sue Neufarth Howard


SEA SOUND
 
The rise and descent
    of the cicadas' shrill plea
        mocks the ocean surf
 
 
 
 
 
Sue Neufarth Howard - Poet

Cincinnati native, published poet, visual artist, former business writer in marketing and
sales training; retired.

Graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (Speech-Radio/TV) and University
of Cincinnati Evening College (Associate in Art).

 Member, Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL) and Colerain Artists.
Received Third Prize and/or Honorable Mention in several Ohio Poetry Day
Contests since 1998.  1983 Poet Laureate for Clifton Heights/Fairview - Cincinnati
Recreation Commission Neighborhood Poetry Contest.

Poems published in the Journal of Kentucky Studies - 25th Anniversary Edition;
the Mid-America Poetry Review; Nomad's Choir; The Incliner - Cincinnati Art Museum;
the Creative Voices Anthology of the Institute for Learning in Retirement, City of
Cincinnati; in several For a Better World - Poems on Peace and Justice by Greater
Cincinnati Artists anthologies; and Poetic Hours Magazine, Carlton, England.
Poetry chapbooks self published via Lulu.com in 2012: TreeScapes, EarthWords,
and In and Out of the Blue Zoo.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Haiku from the Editor, A.J. Huffman



Firecrackers spark
fantasies of fire and flight
that linger like smoke.



Tiny hands applaud
thunderous booming followed
by a rain of light.



Sunday, June 23, 2013

Haiku by Corey Cook


-Leafing Out-

Hillside smolders -
smoky green wisps unfurling
as sun burns through haze.
 


meteor shower
obscured by clouds - fox ignites
fallow field



MRI scheduled -
red maple’s crown riddled
with blossoming clots
 
 
 
Corey Cook’s three-lined poems have appeared in The Aurorean, bear creek haiku, Brevities, Four and Twenty, Lilliput Review, and elsewhere. Longer work has recently been featured or is forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine, The Germ, Red River Review, Smoky Quartz Quarterly, The Somerville News, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Corey works in New Hampshire and lives in Vermont.

Friday, June 21, 2013

Haiku by Neil Ellman


Poet
 
we make poetry
we dream metaphors and light
yet no one knows our names


Trouble
 
troubled paradise--
storm clouds gather in the east
accept the swirling wind


Pain
 
petals from a rose
picking clovers four by four
flowers, too, feel pain


Moonlight
moon halts in its course
irony of hidden sun
how soft your lips
 
 
 
Reflections
 
not myself at all
not that image in the glass--
I was so much more
 
 
 
Twice nominated for Best of the Net, as well as for the Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Neil Ellman writes from New Jersey.  He has published scores of haiku and related poems in such journals as High Coup Journal, Ten Pages Press, Haiku Journal, IndeArts, and Three Line Poetry, among others.
 

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Haiku by Kelley White


One and two man sculls
On the river—
Philadelphia, 6 a.m.
 
 
 
Rustic fishing camp
I’da kept the outhouse and woodstove
If I’d bought it
 
 
 
troop of wet girl scouts
around a fire in the woods
sit-upons steaming
 
 
 
 
Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner-city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA.  Her most recent books are TOXIC ENVIRONMENT (Boston Poet Press) and TWO BIRDS IN FLAME (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 PCA grant.
 

Friday, June 7, 2013

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall


The entire sky
Color of one shade of blue
Now a fresh canvas

The star exploded
In the universes hand
Fireworks of awe

Memory foam bed
Must have forgotten
I lost fourteen pounds

Paranoid hermit
Locked in the house felt safe
Hit by meteor

The end of the world
Built a large ship to the mars
It was destroyed first


Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, fiction, or articles recently published and rejected. Denny does not have Facebook page or Tweeter account but does have a website with previously published works.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Haiku by Alexis Rhone Fancher


Murderous Insects Haiku

1.

Killed the mosquito
that bit you in the kitchen.
Your blood on my hands.

2.

Spider in our bed.
He bit you ‘cause you’re sweeter.
Time I rubbed him out.

3.

Tijuana Dulce:

Sugar clings to jar.
Ants cling to the sugar. A
Mexican standoff.

4.

Moth rams my window.
Caught in my hand, flutter soft.
It feels like dying.



Writer/photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher’s latest chapbook is Gidget Goes To The Ghetto. Her “pillow book,” explicit, came out in 2010. She studies with the poet, Jack Grapes, and is a member of his L.A. Poets & Writers Collective. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in High Coupe, Mas Tequila Review, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Cultural Weekly, Tell Your True Tale, Downer agazine, Bare Hands Anthology, Ireland, The Sun Magazine, Spark Off Rose, The Poetry Juice Bar and elsewhere. Her erotic thriller, Annie’s Sinful Nature, awaits publication.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Haiku by Loretta Oleck


Cicada Shell

She wants attention
just the same as the children.
Twining vines choke trees.

We have become one
of those couples without words.
Longing for mangoes.

Thirteen moons later
he leaves before I knew him.
No compass, no lamp.




Loretta Oleck is a poet and psychotherapist. Her poetry has been published in The Westchester Review, Feminist Studies, The Mom Egg, Commonline Journal, St. Somewhere, Laughing Earth, Poetica Magazine, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, among others. More recently her work has been performed at The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, as well as at other venues in and around New York. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from New York University.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Haiku by Anthony Ward


Affection

I’ll always love her,
If we lived eternally
I would die for her.


Memories

I look to the past
being blind to the present
seeing no future


Diving

I’m tired of dying
As I die every day...
I just want to live.


Under-standing

I can teach myself,
though I cannot learn from it
what others teach me.


Art

art reveals torture,
self inflicted punishment
that does us no harm.



Anthony Ward tends to fidget with his thoughts in the hope of laying them to rest. He has managed to lay them in a number of literary magazines including The Faircloth Review, The Pygmy Giant, Jellyfish Whispers, Turbulence, Underground, The Bohemyth, Torrid Literature Journal and The Weekenders, amongst others.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Haiku by Sue Howard


Robin, beak full, streaks
across open sky; what radar
tracks which tree is home?


The wind sings, the trees
sway, birds joggle-dance
across the grey-white sky.


Monkey-faced pansies
bobble-headed by the wind
nod good afternoon.


Young leaves quiver
like fountain pond ripples;
gusting wind tickles.


Mamma walks the sky
at night sowing moonbeams...
seeds of poems.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Haiku by M.V. Montgomery


sound and sense

A distant horn honked,
defining the contours of
the outside city.


dreaming

This dreaming of mine:
like opening a too-large
umbrella indoors.


a day in the life

Pausing to remove
dry branch caught in soccer net:
morning goaltending.

*

As I plan a lunch,
checking expiration dates
helps me to decide.

*

inadvertently
washing dollar bill in pants:
money-laundering.



M.V. Montgomery is a professor at Life University. His most recent book is What We Did With Old Moons.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Haiku by Kelley White


ring around the moon
insects grow quiet—then thunder
then the deluge



today you gave me
roses and a nectarine--
still, i slept alone



Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner-city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent books are TOXIC ENVIRONMENT (Boston Poet Press) and TWO BIRDS IN FLAME (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 PCA grant.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Haiku by André Surridge


pine branch
a cone flies off
to join the sparrows

warm dawn
waiting for wings to dry
the new monarch

 
white heron
preening winter
from her wings



André Surridge: Born in Hull, England, André lives in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has won several awards for haiku and tanka. His most recent being the inaugural Janice M. Bostok International Haiku Award, 2012.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Haiku by Harmony Hodges


Sunken ship

Sea monsters, dread locks
Chests of jewelry abound
Mermaids walk the plank


Sister

Take a grain of sand
Now you have a sister
Two sirens of the sea



Harmony Hodges is an artist living in Portland Oregon. She writes poetry and fiction and her work can be found online in the journal With Painted Words.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Haiku by Mary Orovan


apricots
furry angelic
orange


in a few days
spring painted herself
ecstatic


the madly
colorful death cries
of leaves



Reverse Haiku:

he was the rainbow
of my life
and the blueberries




Mary Orovan's book "Green Rain" is on Amazon.com. She has current or recent poems on line at 2River.org, Winter issue, and First Literary Review www.rulrul.4mg.com. Print journals include, "San Pedro River Review", "Poetry East", and many other publications. She's been writing poetry for about 12 years.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Haiku from John Miatech


Snow Squall

Chilly winter guest:
Snow squall off of Pt. Aux Chien
erasing the sky!


Haiku

Testicles, icicles
Everything hangs useless now
that it is winter!



Meetings

Ruby Valley, June
Ground squirrels commune in the road:
Open range country



Passing Through

little viceroy,
drunk again on purple thistle:
summer is passing



Ruby Mountains in July

Along the roadside
White mare, brown colt lie in sage:
Dawn, Ruby Mountains







John Miatech’s poems speak of wild places, of the spiritual relationship between humans and the Earth, of the deeper belief that everything in the natural world is alive and connected, and that you can find this out for yourself if you take the time. Growing up in Michigan, John has lived in California for most of his adult life. This has allowed him to roam the rich landscape of lakes and rivers, deserts, mountains and forests that these two regions provide, giving him a deep bond with the secret places of both areas, and with the voices that speak within their borders. His work has appeared in Anesthesia Review, BlazeVox, RiverSedge, Cellar Roots, Big River Poetry Review, Savasvati, Blue Lake Review and Northwest Review.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Haiku by Ayaz Daryl Nielsen


Blue-colored morning
dream wisps fading in-
to first thoughts
 
 
 
always a hair on
the bristles of my toothbrush
sometimes two
 
 
 
yesterday's main streets
all the half-
remembered somethings
 
 
 
 
ayaz daryl nielsen - poet/editor/husband/father/army veteran/x- roughneck (as on oil rigs)/x-hospice nurse/editor of bear creek haiku (20+years/110+issues), resplendent homes for poems include Lilliput Review, Shemom (ed Peggy),Yellow Mama (ed Cindy), Shamrock (Irish Haiku Society, a most favorite online poetry pub), Lalitamba, Kind Of A Hurricane Press (yay, Amy!), also various anthologies/some awards (all deeply embraced), poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart, and, Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, (both from the fierce poetry funhouse of ayaz daryl nielsen) beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Haiku by Sue Neufarth Howard


Neighboring trees,
bare branches brush, clack, tangle
in the rush of brusque wind.


The cat's tummy time
on my lap; I doze to a
purr-fect lullaby.


Forest branches bald
and nearly bare, a playground
for gymnastic squirrels.


Hanging brass wind chimes
sway like a metronome
in the whipping wind.


Sue Neufarth Howard.  Cincinnati native, published poet, visual artist, former business writer in marketing and sales training; retired.  Graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and University of Cincinnati Evening College.  Member, Greater Cincinnati Writers League (GCWL) and Colerain Artists.  Received Third Prize and/or Honorable Mention in several Ohio Poetry Day Contests since 1998. 1983 Poet Laureate for Clifton Heights/Fairview - Cincinnati Recreation Commission Neighborhood Poetry Contest.  Poems published in the Journal of Kentucky Studies - 25th Anniversary Edition; the Mid-America Poetry Review; Nomad's Choir; The Incliner - Cincinnati Art Museum;  the Creative Voices Anthology of the Institute for Learning in Retirement, City of Cincinnati; in several For a Better World - Poems on Peace and Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists anthologies; and Poetic Hours Magazine, Carlton, England. Poetry chapbooks self published via Lulu.com in 2012: TreeScapes, EarthWords, and In and Out of the Blue Zoo.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Haiku by John Polelle


Now nights dark beauty
complete with crown of stars.
The sun disrobes her.


Full bloom gone to seed
summers blossom falls to earth
promising return.


By day all is known;
light of reason everywhere.
But then comes moonrise.


Ugly crawling bug
that decimates my rose bush;
soon a butterfly.


Gritty , grey sea shell
protects the slimy oyster
making lustrous pearls.



John Polelle is one of five poets of the Pot Luck Poets group that came together in the Gig Harbor , Washington area about four years ago after meeting at a workshop conducted by Tom Crawford . He has only recently been submitting his work for review and possible publication . Two of his poems have been published by the on-line journal Quill and Parchment .

Friday, March 1, 2013

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall


First is dark matter
Followed by dark gravity
What is the next dark?


The alien parts
Both unaware, left behind
An unknown disease


Returned to the moon
Stranded in lunar module
Until funding is passed


From one universe
Race to the next closest one
Aliens eat dust


From one universe
Speed to the next closest one
Race is long and fast



Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, fiction, or articles recently published and rejected. Denny does not have Facebook page or Tweeter account but does have a website with previously published works.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Haiku by Chuck Von Nordhein


you forget lungs go
in and out and in and out—
until cold mists breath


he says chill stills lust
but she knows he’ll go again—
more cold, more snuggles


outside ice glazed trees—
hungry girl eats donuts
fat hidden till spring


blizzard howls outside
frat boy orders another—
puts on beer jacket



Chuck Von Nordhein lives in Ohio, but considers the California high desert home. He desires to feel sand shift under his feet instead of slick snow. His work has also appeared in Mock Turtle and Every Day Poets, among other places.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Haiku by M.J. Iuppa


Blowzy white globes
glow on twilight’s lawn.
Summer’s constellations.


Gold sleigh bells hang
Over the fireplace mantle
A garland of sound


Old sled, sentinel
by the entrance– snow covered boots
stop there, dripping


Warm July night
fireflies flicker in woods
minor constellations


Floating aimlessly
inside a tear
Lost eyelash

Campfire stirred by
whispered ghost stories~
embers glow, brighter.



M.J.Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Her most recent poems have appeared in Poetry East, The Chariton Review, Tar River Poetry, Blueline, The Prose Poem Project, and The Centrifugal Eye, among others. Recent chapbook is As the Crows Flies (Foothills Publishing, 2008) and second full length collection, Within Reach, (Cherry Grove Collections, 2010); Forthcoming prose chapbook Between Worlds (Foothills Publishing) She is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Haiku by Martin Cohen


Impressions of Improv (a haiku sequence)

(After attending one class and seeing one show)

They start with a word
Then create a universe
No one leads all lead

From nothing a play
Beginning middle and end
And it all makes sense

They know what to say
No wisdom of the staircase
All follows somehow

In middle of scene
Out of the blue something new
Minds and bodies dance

Wonder what happens
When simultaneously
Two ideas collide

This group -- no women
Sometimes misogynistic
Wonder if they care

In flow of moment
Uncensored mind can offend
Can I avoid this?


 



Martin Cohen is a retired computer programmer who loves dancing (favorites are West Coast Swing, Waltz, Tango, and Foxtrot), writing (but not revising) poems, and solving math problems.

















Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Haiku by Ali Znaidi


Collision

ecstasy & pain collide
slapdash memory work
delirium cacophony


Conniption

a most brilliant intext
to read: Conniption
so eloquent in her face

 
Sin(tax)

they break syntax
o yes
the rich don’t pay tax



Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He graduated with a BA in Anglo-American Studies in 2002. He teaches English at Tunisian public secondary schools. He writes poetry and has an interest in literature, languages, and literary translations. His work has appeared in The Camel Saloon, Otoliths, The Tower Journal, streetcake, The Rusty Nail, Yes,Poetry, Shot Glass Journal, Ink Sweat and Tears, Mad Swirl, Unlikely Stories: Episode IV, Red Fez, Carcinogenic Poetry, and other ezines. His debut poetry chapbook Experimental Ruminations was published in September 2012 by Fowlpox Press (Canada). He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network—http://sixsentences.ning.com/profile/AliZnaidi.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Haiku by Chuck Von Nordheim


puddles overflow
paved lots and streets and sidewalks—
rain and rain and rain


ever unfurling
black fabric of fast river
upholsters the night


skies utter lightning
streams use a whirr of water—
few hear such wisdom



Chuck Von Nordheim lives in a yellow house by a green river outside of Dayton, Ohio. He toils as a graduate assistant in the Wright State University English department, teaching first-year composition. His work has also appeared in High Coup Journal and Haiku Journal, among other places.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Haiku by Ayaz Daryl Nielsen


red-wing blackbirds
no two eggs from the same male
well, that’s blackbirds!


ayaz daryl nielsen, poet/editor/husband/father/veteran/x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/x-hospice nurse, is editor/custodian of print pub bear creek haiku (20+ years and 110+ issues), has poetry in awesome homes including Lilliput Review (ed. Don Wentworth), Barbaric Yawp (ed’s. John and Nancy Berbrich), Shemom (most favorite person ed. Peggy Dugan French), Yellow Mama (check it out online/Cindy Crosmus most exotic of editors), Lalitamba (possibly coolest print pub in existence), ayaz has three collections of poetry in print, blog site is bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (which translates as joie de vivre).





Thursday, February 14, 2013

Haiku by April Salzano


on my knees I suck
what started as foreplay grows
in my mouth and tongue


 
bent over the bed
one more inch would do me good
standing on tiptoe




face down flattened out
dolphins swimming on dry land
riding waves back home




two scissors rubbing
girl or guy it matters not
both would hit the spot




default position
lack of creativity
most romantic encounter




April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania and is working on her first (several) poetry collections and an autobiographical work on raising a child with Autsim. Her work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, Pyrokinection, Convergence, Ascent Aspiration, Deadsnakes, The Rainbow Rose and other online and print journals and is forthcoming in Inclement, Poetry Quarterly and Bluestem.



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Haiku by Anne Curran


Island beauty
- henna adorns
her chest


that midsummer night
reading through
my diary entries


turtledoves
by the park pench
- our easy silence


summer evening
cicada song
drums the night


Christmas pudding
on special -
'tis the season'



Anne Curran is a Hamiltonian and member of a large Catholic family of seven brothers and sisters. She has completed University qualifications and been a teacher for most of her professional life.  She has taught English, communications studies and English as a second language. She has completed a poetry collection titled 'Birds of Paradise'.   In her spare time she enjoys visiting art galleries and
watching films.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Haiku by Martin Cohen

Drizzle

I carry a knife
When I find the right person
Fingers fall like rain



Haiku? Shmaiku!

The modern haiku
Is no longer restricted
Five seven five - haa!
 
 
 
Martin Cohen is a retired computer programmer who loves dancing (favorites are West Coast Swing, Waltz, Tango, and Foxtrot), writing (but not revising) poems, and solving math problems.
 
 
*Drizzle was previously published in the Bloody Ink Anthology by Ink Babes.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Haiku by Carl Scharwath


lonely ocean wave
long travel completed
in a sandpipers retreat


fresh virgin snow
falling pine cone
whispers in descent


silent first snow
hides summer lawn furniture
in stillness


dawn trees awaken
fabrics of fog adorn
outstretched branches


orange crescent moon
holds memories of the night
in her silver cup




The Orlando Sentinel, Lake Healthy Living, Think Healthy and Mature Lifestyles Magazines have all described Carl Scharwath as the "running poet." His interests include being a father/grandfather,competitive running,sprint triathlons and taekwondo (he's a 2nd degree black belt).

His work appears worldwide with over forty published poems and five short stories. He was awarded “Best in Issue” in Haiku Reality Magazine and was recently selected as a featured poet in Ambrielrev. His favorite authors are Hermann Hesse and Charlotte Perkins Gillman.




 

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall


UFO landed
The aliens were small plants
Other plants silent


Craft lands on planet
Minutes after an earthquake
Methane tsunami


Waiting by the craft
For glimpse of alien
Only a robot


Do aliens dream?
Of other life forms
Forget to ask them


Space not the final
Frontier, recently like the
Forgotten frontier



Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, fiction, or articles recently published and rejected.


Sunday, February 3, 2013

Haiku by Alex Nodopaka


Egret reflections
bounce on yellow ripples
between branches


Return to sender
for insufficient postage
or postal morgue

 
Inside wastebasket
wrinkled poetry
lays defeated

 
Vodka-flavored tongue
wedged in Beluga caviar
savors buried pearl

 
Coupled letters dance
birthing stunted words
meaning yet to be



Alex Nodopaka originated in Ukraine-Russia in 1940. Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Full time author, artist in the USA. His interests in the visual arts and literature are widely multi-cultural. However, he considers his past irrelevant as he seeks new reincarnations in IFC movies if only for the duration of a wink.


Saturday, February 2, 2013

Haiku by Alexis Rhone Fancher


Haiku For My Beloved
 
I ask for breakfast,
Instead, he brings me flowers.
Am I still hungry?


He Searches For Reasons
 
material girl?
that was your complaint, right? Like
a car’s a bad thing?


The Plot Thickens
Once betrayed, twice shy.
Says he’s not that kind of guy.
Should I believe him?


Cruel Haiku To A Former Lover
 
there’s a touch of the
poet in everyone - well,
everyone but you.

How The Artist Sees The World
 
It’s about the light.
How it slants entire worlds
With its opinion.
 
 
 
Writer/photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher’s latest chapbook is Gidget Goes To The Ghetto. Her “pillow book,” explicit, came out in 2010. She studies with the poet, Jack Grapes, and is a member of his L.A. Poets & Writers Collective. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Mas Tequila Review, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Cultural Weekly, Tell Your True Tale, Downer Magazine, Bare Hands Anthology, Ireland, The Sun Magazine, Spark Off Rose, The Poetry Juice Bar and elsewhere. Her erotic thriller, Annie’s Sinful Nature, awaits publication.