Haiku by Tina Pocha

Fandango

romance night
The way of light on water
touch, no touch, silver

Tina Pocha was born and raised in Bombay, India.  She is a scientist by training and a writer by avocation.  She currently works as an academic in the field of language and literacy, but in the world of poetry, she is (mostly) unpublished and unfinished and savoring the ride!  She currently resides in Southern California.

Haiku by Linda M. Crate

april rains
phoenix rise
rainbow dance.


autumn gold
leaves of the past
singing now.


blue lipped
angel of ice
burning.


feathers
stories untold
wing away.


nova burning
remember me
dreaming.




Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville.  Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print.  Recently her two chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press -- June 2013) and Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon -- January 2014) were published.  Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015.  Her novel Dragons & Magic is forthcoming through Ravenswood Publishing.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

rainfall upon
the Animas River
autumn weeps


rose garden
petal by falling petal
autumn


tripped on a purse
sprawled across the lap
married her

ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs), hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/127+ issues), homes for poems include Lilliput Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Cattails, A Hundred Gourds, High Coupe, Shamrock, and online at bear creek haiku poetry, poems and info (translates as joie de vivre).

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

The lesser evil
never gets caught unless
the altar-wine sours


Time didn't learn to fly -
she chose a Harley
side-car instead


Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with Dead Snakes, Poetry Pacific, Snow Monkey, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Boston Poetry Magazine, Mad Swirl, The Mind[less] Muse, and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945.

Haiku by Gloria Keeley

on a dark bayou
a fish jumps high through the moon
a frog is swimming



moon shines down on me
much like a pearl in the sky
strands around my neck

Gloria Keeley is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing.  She currently volunteers at the grammar school she attended, teaching poetry to the third graders.  Her work has appeared in Spook River Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, 300 Days of Sun, Stillwater, Straylight, and others.

Haiku from April Salzano

and then there were ten
five for you and five for them
don't choose too quickly


Weekend at Dad's house.
Deodorant, retainer,
left at home on sink.


Reverse Cowgirl

backwards and bent wrong
but you have the perfect view
forget who I am

April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband and two sons.  She is currently working on a memoir on raising a child with autism and several collections of poetry.  Her work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, The Camel Saloon, Centrifugal Eye, DeadSnakes, Visceral Uterus, Salome, Poetry Quarterly, Writing Tomorrow and Rattle.  Her first chapbook, The Girl of My Dreams, is forthcoming in spring, 2015 from Dancing Girl Press.  The author serves as co-editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press (www.kindofahurricanepress.com).

Haiku by Emily Jo Scalzo

warm enough for rain
the earthworms on the pavement
despite two feet of snow

Emily Jo Scalzo has an MFA in Fiction from California State University, Fresno.  She currently resides in Muncie, Indiana, and is an assistant professor at Ball State University.  Her work has been published in Mobius:  The Journal of Social Change, The Mindful Word, Ms. Fit Magazine, and The Blue Collar Review.  

Haiku by Theresa A. Cancro

sliver of moon
in lingering clouds--
lost flip-flop among the dunes


he kisses
my eyes closed--bits of baklava
beneath the coverlet


catching the fly-ball
I become my son's
new hero


sea glass--
the gull's eye
spots a morsel

Theresa A. Cancro of Wilmington Delaware writes poetry and short fiction.  Dozens of her poems have been published internationally, in print and online.  Many of her haiku have appeared, or are forthcoming, in such journals as A Hundred Gourds, A Handful of Stones, tinywords, Brass Bell, Cattails, Shamrock, Chrysanthemum, Presence, and The Icebox, among others.  In the January 2015 issue of Cattails, her haiku was featured as an Editor's Choice.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

early evening
sofa covered with nephews
nieces and kittens


a long dream
waking beside
a purring cat


longing for a windstorm
   reeds in a small pond
      imagine new moves

ayaz daryl nielsen, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/125+ issues), homes for poems include Lilliput Review, SCIFAIKUEST, Shemom, Shamrock, Kind of a Hurricane Press, and online at:  bear creek haiku poetry.

Haiku by Wayne F. Burke

ocean waves of
stuporous languor--
the maid sweeps the sun deck

Wayne F. Burke has previously appeared in Bottle Rockets, and his tanka has appeared in American Tanka.  His poetry collection, Words that Burn, is published by Bareback Press (2013).

Haiku by Kelley White

inchworm--
living or dying
suspended by a thread

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 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.

Haiku by Mark Blaeuer

A Course in Epistemology at Cambridge

Let us now discuss
how an ant should go about
pinching Wittgenstein.

Ludwig is buried,
rendering the ant's approach
uber difficult.

Does said ant believe
it has a chance to finish
the job?  Not really.

Mark Blaeuer's poems and translations have appeared in nigh onto seventy journals.  His first collection, Fragment of a Nocturne (White Violet Press) was published in 2014.

Haiku by Shloka Shankar

cold day . . .
the way you no longer
look at me


dog days . . .
where does the couch end
and I begin?


carousel
i chase a dream
backwards

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India.  She is a contributing poet in over two dozen international anthologies.  Some of her haiku & tanka have appeared in journals including Under the Basho, The Living Haiku Anthology, The Heron's Nest, A Hundred Gourds, bottle rockets, paper wasp, Acorn, Chrysanthemum, The Bamboo Hut, Hedgegrow, and numerous others.  She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom.

Haiku by Glenn Munroe

scudding clouds forewarn
forces churn beyond our sight
tie the summer down!


the old tree wants in
its branches scratch my window
i bolt shut my door


snowflakes swoop and slide
dancing random pirouettes
my tongue tastes their deaths


winter stalks despair
like a pack of lean white wolves
let your soul burn hot


memories of love
tongues flesh limbs lips and laughter
the promise of spring

Glenn Munroe has worked as a letter carrier, landscaper, taxi driver, environmental advocate, government manager, small business owner, and consultant.  He has always been an avid organic gardener.  He has been writing poetry all his life, but until recently has only published non-fiction writing related to his environmental work.  Currently, he is a senior policy analyst for the Environment Commissioner of Ontario.

Haiku by Mary Salen

Carnal Knowledge

I know your secret
sounds, staccato in my ear:
your edges have popped.


Metamorphosis at Midnight

Caterpillar man
mad for growth, I kiss your head:
BIG old butterfly!



Mary Salen writes poetry from her farm house in the historic Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and five children.

Haiku by Mikel K

You can't buy a cigarette at CVS

but you can get overcharged

for a prescription.

 

 

 

Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Atlanta, Ga. K was voted best Atlanta Poet, the last three years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. He has a BS in English with a minor in Journalism from Georgia State University.  Poetry by Mikel K has appeared in: Subtle Tea, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, The Blue Lake Review, Swimming With Elephants, Visceral Uterus, The Piker Press, Vox Poetica, Napalm and Novocaine, Ceremony, The Georgia Review, The Reeve Report, Lowlife Magazine, The Political Dogma, World Wide Hippies.com, Open Salon, and Beagle Bugle. He was a music columnist for a number of years, covering the Atlanta music scene and worked as a freelancer for The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  You can buy a book by K at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mikelkpoet

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

no, morning breeze

you cannot have

her lingering scent

 

 

honeysuckle breeze

even the scarecrow

sniffs and smiles

 

 

a sparrow sings

listens in the silence

sings again

 

 

 

ayaz daryl nielsen, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/125+ issues), homes for poems include Lilliput Review, SCIFAIKUEST, Shemom, Shamrock, Kind of a Hurricane, and!  online at  bear creek haiku  poetry, poems and info

The Results for the 2014 Editor's Choice Contest are in!!!

And the Winner is . . .

Scavenger Hunt by Donna Barkman


2nd place goes to . . .

Visitation Tuesday by Denise Weuve


3rd place goes to . . .

Mathematics by Christopher Hivner


This year we had three Honorable Mentions.  They are . . .

The Traffic in Old Ladies by Mary Newell
this small rain by Alexis Rhone Fancher
Signs of the Apolcalypse by Terri Simon


To read the winning poems and to see the complete list of finalists go to Kind of a Hurricane's Editor's Choice Contest Site:  http://editorschoiceaward.blogspot.com/ 

Haiku by A.J. Huffman

frost-bite's kiss lingers
a mere shiver against morning's
virgin smile


bobsleds pepper hillsides
sparkle like silver ornaments
against snow-covered trees


snowflake wonderland
my eyes struggle to discern
individual designs


red barn smothered in white
thawing, the world appears
to be bleeding


snowball fight erupts
children scramble for ammo
snowmen lose their heads



A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her new poetry collection, Another Blood Jet, is not available from Eldritch Press.  She has two more poetry collections forthcoming:  A Few Bullets Short of Home, from mgv2>publishing and Degeneration, from Pink. Girl. Ink.  She is a Multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, and has published over 2100 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com

Haiku by Anne Swannell

Wind howls round the porch.
News of the world flies away
smack into a bush!

Anne Swannell's work has been seen in many literary journals, and recently in anthologies from Leaf Press, Chuffed Buff Books, and Polar Expressions.  She has three books of poetry, Drawing Circles on the Water, Mall (Rowan Books, 1991), and Shifting (Ekstasis, 2008).  She lives in Victoria, BC, where she makes mosaics, and is a scenic painter/set designer for local theater companies.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

shifting wind

   the coyote’s foreleg

      motionless

 

 

peeking between

   the drawn shades

      cat and nephews

 

 

clarinet lesson -

   the tutor

   the tutes

ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/125+ issues), homes include Lilliput Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Shemom, Shamrock, and!    online at  bear creek haiku  poetry, poems and info 

Haiku by Kelley White

cat crouching
fledgling robin
fallen cherry blossoms


old dogs startles
the scarecrow's shadow
knocking on the door



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 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.

Haiku by henry 7. reneau, jr.

haiku #4

holy mother church
is a room with a door--not
unlike a prison cell


hypocrisy haiku

legal alcohol
& cigarrettes       but gateway
weed--too un-taxable

henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words in fire to wake the world ablaze:  free verse illuminated by courage that empathizes with all the awful moments, launching a freight train warning that blazes from the heart, like a chambered bullet exploding inadvertently.  His poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press, 2014), was released in September of 2014.

Haiku by Linda M. Crate

lotus in water
secrets you deny
petals swim.


murmurs
a dead turtle
stars fall.

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvania native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Cnneautville.  She currently resides in Meadville.  Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print.  Recently her two chapbooks, A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013) and Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon -- January 2014), were published.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

late autumn evening
weeding the Zen garden
my shame revealed


first light of dawn
sparrows chanting
above new snow


evening rain
the widowed neighbor
shares her umbrella


ninth-story patio
cat howling important things
another cat answers

ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/120+ issues), homes include Lilliput Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Boston Literary Magazine, High Coupe, Shamrock, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)