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.

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.

 

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.

 

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.