Due to personal issues this project and all others associated with Kind of a Hurricane Press are closed indefinitely.  All work that has already been published will remain live on the site.  All work that was accepted but has not been published is now released back to the author.  All print copies and issues will remain available through their current sales channels.

Haiku by Pat Geyer

storm spirit spits
rain in the face of the wind . . .
squall line angers



banished he leaves . . .
pushing from the breakwaters
he catches a storm

Pat Geyer lives in East Brunswick, NJ.  Her home is surrounded by the parks and lakes where she finds her inspiration in nature.  Published in several journals, she is an amateur photographer and poet.

Haiku by Mikayla Heiss

black sky
illuminated by street lights
no stars to be found


black dots
scatter the sheet
design determining a final grade


friendship
under pointy leaves
a tropical fruit of compassion

Mikayla Heiss can usually be found somewhere in the state of New York.  Currently, she is pursuing a degree in environmental science and english.

Haiku by Brendan McBreen

freedom
is a thorn to the wicked
fruit to the wise

Brendan McBreen is a poet and workshop facilitator with Striped Water Poets in Auburn Washington.  He is a humorist, a haiku writer, a student of Zen and Taoist philosophy and psychology, a collage artist, a sometimes cartoonist, a Gemini, and an event coordinator with the Auburn Days festival in August.  He is a former coordinator of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and in 2009 was awarded a residency at the Whiteley Center in Friday Harbor.  Brendan has featured at various local venues and is published in many journals including Raven Chronicles, Bellowing Ark, Crab Creek Review, bottle rockets, Leading Edge, Origami Condom, Circle Show, and in the anthology In Tahoma's Shadow, as well as in the UK journal, The Delinquent.

Haiku from Linda M. Crate

crow song
white as snowfall
dreams.


sunlight
bouquet of beauty
spring.

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvania 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.  The second novel of this series, Dragons & Magic, was published in October 2015.  Her poetry collection, Sing Your Own Song, is forthcoming through Barometric Pressures Series.

Haiku by Joyce Joslin Lorenson

milkweed morning
a monarch chooses
the right moment


summer drought
in a handful of soil
stardust


heat pouring
out of the sky
a few wilting birds


wayward wind
wandering tendrils
of the honeysuckle


spring wood
slender spikes of wild
allium inching up

Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home.  She has been published in several print and electronic journals.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

from the far away
ocean breeze thru our window
faint cries of sea gulls


both doors wide open
the warmth of a summer breeze
in and out 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 Press and online at bear creek haiku.

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

Fault Line

Only coyote knows
where
time goes



Time & Tide

The periwinkle pulls her head in
at twice the speed
of sound

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry & had poems appear in Dead Snakes, The Fib Review, Poetry Pacific, The Mind[less] Muse, Ink, Sweat & Tears, & others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia.  Stefanie's latest poetry title, The Vanishing, is published by Walleah Press & available from Walleah Press, Amazon & Fishpond Books.

Haiku by B.C. Nance

A Garden Haiku Triptych

Beads of salty sweat
Weeds choke my forlorn garden
Sore hands grip dull hoe

Amid the tangles
A blossom reaches skyward
New life gives new hope

Guests feast heartily
The fruits of my labor praised
Oh, it was nothing

B.C. Nance is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and daughters.  He works as a historical archaeologist, writing many an exciting archaeological report.  In his spare time, he writes fiction and poetry including two poems published in the anthology, Filtered Through Time, edited by S.R. Lee.

Haiku by Sanjeev Sethi

A shorthand
of brisk emotions.
Is this love?

The recently released, This Summer and That Summer, (Bloomsbury) is Sanjeev Sethi's third book of poems.  His work also includes well-received volumes, Nine Summers Later and Suddenly For Someone.  His poems have found a home in The London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Otoliths, Off the Coast, Hamilton Stone Review, The Mind[less] Muse, Solstice Literary Magazine, Literary Orphans, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, Cafe Dissensus Everday, Section 8 Magazine, The Peregrine Muse, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Futures Trading, and elsewhere.  He lives in Mumbai, India.

Haiku by Ezifeh Chinua

Haiku for Evolving

Mother's vocal chord:
Metallic pillars
Right under my words

And growing up:
A long wake of winter skin
Beyond a cross-road

Hesitating:
You in a den of hungry lions
The door is ajar



Ezifeh Chinua is a poet and artist who lives in Nigeria.  He is currently experimenting with forms.

Haiku by Denny Marshall

seeking perfection
forgetting a broken clock
is right twice a day


camping on moon
under the dome, the best part
zero mosquitoes

Denny Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.  Some recently.  Mostly does artwork.  Denny does not have any books or books for sale.  See more at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by Faris Naimi

Mute Congregation

Trees pray with arms raised.
Lonely petrified sermons.
Mute congregation.

Faris Naimi is an undergraduate student at George Mason University.  He was born and raised in Vienna, VA, and he works as a dental assistant.  He spends his time as a student of Biology, a writer, and a nature enthusiast.

Haiku by Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Tall trees often brood
over direful loss of kin
White pages protest


Fallen brown leaves crunch
beneath puny paws of fur
Two squirrels home bound

Hues of orangish
blue dance in late afternoon sky
Spring's Elysium

Haiku omitted
Five seven five syllables
mutely disappear

Where no graves exist
A still garden lies extinct
Birds hover no more

Sana Tamreen Mohammed, M.A. B.Ed, resides in Kolkata, India.  She worked as a journalist in a renowned news channel and independent documentary making.  She won The First Monsoon Haiku Competition, Kolkata.  Presently, she woks as a teacher when not working on her manuscript.  She was featured in a radio show.  Her poems were published in various online literary magazines and translated into four different languages.

Haiku by A.J. Huffman

Diana's eye blinks
as she hunts alone
in night's unruffled expanse.



Moon rises
against midnight surf.  Skyline erupts
in mirrored brilliance.



An astronaut's dreams:
to float in airless orbit,
walk on powdered form.



Cycle complete.  Full moon
calls my inner nature.
I howl at the wind.

A.J. Huffman has published twelve full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses.  Her most recent releases, Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers.  She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2500 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com.

Haiku by Iain Macdonald

hot soup
in a red bowl,
rain on the window



prized First Edition,
but the bored puppy
doesn't care



scalding shower;
the scent of your skin
rising from mine



three days of rain
and the frogpond
is reborn



alien sighting--
keeper at work
among the hives

Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Iain Macdonald currently lives in Arcata, California.  He has earned his bread and beer in various ways, from flower picker to factory hand, merchant marine officer to high school teacher.  His first two chapbooks, Plotting the Course and Transit Report, were published by March Street Press, and a third, The Wrecker's Yard, was published in 2015 by Kattywompus Press.

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

Shine

Look to that cued-up lemon rind
. . . We're all experts
At something



The Scarlet Tattoo

I am content in this day & age
Since owls now patrol
The avenue



Russet Monastery

I cam calling & gladly
Your door-knocker
Was in disarray . . .

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with Dead Snakes, The Fib Review, Poetry Pacific, The Mind[less] Muse and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia.  Stefanie's latest poetry title "the Vanishing" 2015 is published by Walleah Press and available from the publisher [Walleah Press], Amazon and Fishpond.

Haiku by Linda M. Crate

blazing
epiphany
burn your grief.



flower
silver moon spun dream
fading oblivion.



scarlet
moon flower dream
geese fly.



raven
obsidian
song of death



refusing
make my own destiny
blowing leaf.



Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvania 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 was published in October 2015.

Haiku by John Tustin

Always roll sevens
--Leave my bills on the table--
On the second roll

John Tustin graduated from nowhere, edits nothing and has no awards.  His poetry is forthcoming in Oyez Review, Wordland, Newtown Literary Review and others.  fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry is a link to his poetry online.

Haiku by Glenn Munroe

three haiku on the subject of self-discipline

my cubicle walls
stand upright and firm today
do not play they say

a deadline looms large
the damn clock quickens its ticks
gearshift stuck in low

computer calls out
my screen needs your attention
Jack Daniels just laughs

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

a warm melody
on the orchestra playlist
that's when my heart sings



the shades weren't lowered
white moonlight fills her bedroom
in a dream, she smiles



tranquil day
rinds around the melons
peas in their pods



waking birds call
shirts flapping on clotheslines
this peopled earth



endless snow
listening between flakes I can hear
April's butterfly wings




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.

Haiku by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel

Haiku for an Interesting Backyard

A wolf eating your
Pet:  possession is nine tenths
Of the law.  So true!

Venus flytrap:
Watching the dancing sweet fly.
Zoom!  A fly turns a meal.

Camouflage:
A chameleon d.b.a
Mister Greenish Grass.

Marvel Chukwudi Pephel is a prolific poet whose works have appeared or are forthcoming in Kalahari Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, PIN Quarterly Journal, Praxis Magazine for Arts and Literature, Poetry Tree on the Charles, amongst others.  When he is not writing, he spends time face painting.

Haiku by April Salzano

Snow has receded
from lawn.  Birds demand answers.
Crow speaks from his throat.


Mid-polar vortex,
accumulation measured
in feet, not inches


Silence Seems

the only option, weaves
one mile into the next.
Buzz of fly.  End of life.




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 available from Dancing Girl Press.  The author serves as co-editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press (www.kindofahurricanepress.com).

Haiku by Denny Marshall

mirror eyes look out
between folds of beating heart
in blue veins of dreams

Denny Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.  Some recently.  Most does artwork.  He is plain.  See more of his works at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

last chance
my big bowl of excuses
empty

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.

Haiku by Adam Levon Brown

Electric Elegance

Crackling thunder booms
underneath the sanguine sky
Excitement fills me



Solar Significance

Sun high in the sky
Treading the luminescent
We are one with earth




Adam Levon Brown is a poet residing in Eugene, Oregon.  He started writing in winter of 2014 to express his thoughts and emotions as a way of finding catharsis.  He suffers from Schizoaffective disorder and identifies as queer.  He has two collections of poetry published with the independent publishing group Creative Talents Unleashed.  He has been featured in several places including Section 8 Magazine, Leaves of Ink, and The Bitchin' Kitsch.

Haiku by DJ Tyrer

Late-night drink, a few
Hop into car, go for drive
Wrap it round a tree


Body count rising
Summer sun shining on death
Revel in warfare


Childbirth:  Blood, Sweat, Tears
Present a child to the world
Hope and pain combine

DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, was placed second in the 2015 Data Dump Award for Genre Poetry, and has been widely published in anthologies and magazines in the UK, USA and elsewhere, including issues of Cyaegha, Carillion, Frostfire Worlds, Handshake, Illumen, The Pen, Scifaikuest, Tigershark, and Anthology 29, and online at Staxtes English Wednesday, Poetry Bulawayo, Poetry Pacific, Siren's Call and The Muse, as well as releasing several chapbooks, including the critically acclaimed Our Story.  http://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/

Haiku by Jonathan Torn

Wind divides nature
sorting what falls from heaven
An OCD canvass

Jonathan Thorn is a stay at home dad, working a few hours a week at a grocery store.  He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and five children.  He has always loved writing.  Poetry is an outlet that allows him to express the way he sees things, a medium to clarify his world to the world, and a way to encourage others.  He has a chapbook published by Crisis Chronicles, Cutting the Mobius.  He has also been published in anthologies by Writing Knights Press.  He was also one of the finalists at the Grand Tournament through the Writing Knights Press.  He has been published in Stroke Connections Magazine Fall 2015 edition.  He has been invited to be featured at several events.

Haiku by Niall McDevitt

from Jerusalem Haiku


15

       x
     tians
                photoing walls
groups from Korea, Ireland, Peru
click-crusaders



16
platform above all platforms

         esplanade
         higher than esplanades
                                                       clear


21
rainsweepers

                      Khan-al-Zeit

broom waterwaves to conduits



22
torn drapings

vegetable sellers squat on cardboard palettes

                                  bruised women



24
                                           graves

thousands on the terraces

                          white-washed

                                          Kidron beds

Niall McDevitt is a London-based poet, author of two collections, b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010) and Porterloo(International Times, 2013), both of which included haiku sequences.  He is an urban explorer who does literary walks on Shakespeare, Blake, Rimbaud, Yeats and others.  He is currently writing a book about Jerusalem.  He blogs at poetopography.wordpress.com

Haiku by Glen Wilson

the dorrbell chimes,
all the rooms
stand at attention



A balloon inflates,
your breath trapped
at a party



a telephone rings,
the universe waits
on the other line



a whisper nestles
in the sea shell
of your ear



hope and fear spin
in the pointer
of the weighing scales

Glen Wilson has been published in Iota and The Interpreters House amongst others.  In 2014, he won the Poetry Space competition and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall

aliens attack
humans eliminated
want the parking space


the ghost in the house
is never around anymore
Stalks the neighborhood


the old shape shifter
losing the ability
washed a thousand times


children grow up fast
though it is still sad to see
the old sun depart


sight of another
Elvis impersonator
singing, no a ghost

Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry & fiction published, some recently.  See more at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by Stephen Bone

a match is struck
our shadows
spring apart



cloudy day
swimming pool
still blue



trapped beneath
the music box lid
Brahms lullaby

Stephen Bone has been published in various journals in the UK and the US.  First collection, In the Cinema, published by Playdead Press in 2014.  www.playdeadpress.com

Haiku by Theresa A. Cancro

early frost--
left on the grass
a pink sweater


paper lanterns--
snippets of conversation caught
among fireflies


soft mewls
of newborn kittens--
sunbeams


last dance--
the purple orchid wilts
at her waist

Theresa A. Cancro writes poetry and short fiction from Wilmington, Delaware.  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 The Heron's Nest, A Hundred Gourds, tinywords, Prune Juice, Brass Bell, Shamrock, Chrysanthemum, Presence, The Icebox, and Sonic boom, among others.  In the January 2015 issue of Cattails, her haiku was featured as an Editor's Choice.

Haiku by John W. Sexton

everywhere
in the coal sack
fossilized starlight



the depths have surface
otter
dead upon the road



John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland and is the author of five poetry collections, the most recent being The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry, 2013).  He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem "The Green Owl" won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007.  Also in 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.  His haiku have previously appeared in Acorn, The Edinburgh Review, Ginyu, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Simply Haiku, The Heron's Nest, The 58th Basho Festival Haiku Anthology, bottle rockets, Roadrunner, Chrysanthemum, Moonset, Haiku Scotland, Albatross, paper wasp and World Haiku Review.

Haiku by Nells Wasilewski

summer heat shimmers
hot pavement melts all resolve.
hitchhiking--for gas



April blooms hang on
winds howl--snow begins to fall
winter shows its fangs

Nells Wasilewski lives in a small southern town, seventy miles southeast of Nashville, Tennessee.  After retiring, she began pursuing her lifelong dream of writing.  Her writing has been greatly influenced by her faith in Jesus Christ, personal, experience and nature.  She has been writing poems, prose and stories all her life.  Her work has appeared in numerous journals.

Haiku by Joyce Joslin Lorenson

delicious day
air spiced
with the scent of fallen apples


meditating priest
opening to a new world
the morning glories


summer discovery
in the woods
an old dump


apple blossom moon
lengthening shadows
sculpt a new landscape


storm's end
a break in the clouds
sought by swallows

Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, USA, grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home.  She has been published in several print and electronic journals.

Haiku by Wayne F. Burke

dry leaves slither along the pavement
on their bellies--
my father in the war

Wayne F. Burke's collections of poetry Words that Burn (2013) and Dickhead (2015) are published by Bareback Press.

Haiku by Brihintha Burggee

The Fall

wintery streams crossed
    under moonlit paths
       fiery hands held

shadows pass uninterrupted
   honey words, bitter taste
      --we yet hang to each

hearts ebbed on cliffs
   this is your chase
      it is my leap



Snow Souls

Trembling lips
Trampled souls
Laid to the naked white spread

The cold, cold snow
Like blisters onto palms
Crashes like shores to thy core

None knows--
Save one who tasted thee,
Tangy sharp flakes!

Brihintha Burggee has been writing for two years now.  She lives in a small island named Mauritius in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  Aged 20, she has learned to allow her pen to write for her when speech could not be eloquent anymore.  Her works have been previously published by The Rainbow Rose, Harbinger Asylum, Pyrokinection, The Black Mirror Magazine, Mad Swirl, Napalm and Novocain, The Camel Saloon, Dead Snakes, amongst others.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

Spring rain
wife, nephews and I
barefoot in mud


an old conifer
split by lightning
two crows bicker


young grandson
     resembles no one
but himself



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.

Haiku by Robert E. Petras

In a wheelchair
My mother watching
A goose sit on her nest


My wife's reflection
On the snow-rimmed ice
The second silence


Upside down
I look at the duck
Upside down


Inside my ear
These gnats
Play tag


What did they eat
Before I arrived
These mosquitoes

Robert E. Petras is a graduate of West Liberty University and a resident of Toronto, Ohio.  His poetry and short fiction have appeared in print across the globe for more than three decades.  He teaches creative writing to seniors at Jefferson County, Ohio.

Haiku by Denny E. Marshall

Children grow up fast
Though it is still sad to see
The old sun depart

Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry & fiction published, rejected, and no responses to submissions at all, some recently.  Credits include Camel Saloon, Poetry Pacific, and Dead Snakes.  Some more at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by Christopher S. Knodel

On Nature's Vapor

On nature's vapor,
whether cloud or early mist,
beauty fogs the mind.

Christopher S. Knodel is an author, poet and ultra-distance runner in San Antonio, TX.  He is a freelance journalist and writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column.  His poetry and short fiction have been featured in The Asses of Parnassus, Ealain (MPA Publishing), The Wolfian, The Write Place at the Write Time, The Zodiac Review and Zombie Logic Review.  He can be easily spotted by his kilt, tattoos and six inch, flaming-red, Van Dyke goatee.

Haiku by Scott Thomas Outlar

My First Haiku

The truth comes in waves--
a light through the broken sky
quenches rising tides



Light Switch

Owl eyes, on and off--
blink through the night with cold fire
translucent neon prey



Rainy Night

(Rhythm of Story)
how wind whistles through the air . . .
Oxygen-Music



A Lingering Breath

haiku/minimal--
expand horizon beyond
limitations . . . no

Scott Thomas Outlar host the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews can be found.  His words appeared in 150 print and/or online publications in 2015, including Yellow Chair Review, Words Surfacing, Harbinger Asylum, The Mind[less] Muse, and Tuck Magazine.  Scott's chapbook "Songs of a Dissident" was recently released through Transcendent Zero Press and is now available on Amazon.

Haiku by A.J. Huffman

Time's Square -- New Year's Eve
Ball lights the sky, electric
Countdown commences.



Lady Liberty,
stoic beacon of promise,
symbol of welcome.



Pigeons gather crumbs
along Central Park pathways.
Avian trash cans.



A hole in the world
opened on 9/11.
Death, still remembered.

A.J. Huffman has published twelve solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) and A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press) are now available from their respective publishers and amazon.com.  She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2400 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 ayaz daryl nielsen

power outage
   in the darkness
      unable to whistle



nothing to hide
a heavy man's
regal footsteps



evening playground
within a streetlight's glow
moths, kids and puppies



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.

Haiku by Joanna M. Weston

umbrellas
on the church steps
you shelter me


tourists . . .
the cows turn
to watch us

Joanna M. Weston is married, has two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses.  Her middle reader, Those Blue Shoes, was published by Clarity House Press, and her poetry collection, A Summer  Father, was published by Frontenac House of Calgary.  Her ebooks can be found at her blog:  http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com/

Haiku by David Subacchi

Casualties

Tearing up dead plants
Grim casualties of winter
Ready for burning.


Planting

Planting roots in earth
With compost and cold water
Seducing nature.


Hedge Cutter

Heavy hedge cutter
Held inexpertly severs
Electric cable.

David Subacchi lives in Wales (UK).  He was born in the medieval walled town of Aberystwyth on the West Coast of Italian roots.  He writes in English, Welsh and Italian.  Cestrian Press has published two collections of his poems.  "First Cut" (2012) and "Hiding in Shadows" (2014) and David has been widely published internationally.

Haiku by Mary Salen

Morning Time

June, swooshing through grass
puffs around her little skirt
and steals her tissue.



The Artist

Still-life beauty lies
regaled in party pearls, gloves
rouge, shroud and mass cards



Daylight

His car door slams shut,
eyes inch past the curtain's edge
sunshine hits her cheek.



The Writer

Her spring kiss, blows in
through the new-opened window
he puts his pen down.



Fall(en)

on crisp brown leaf-beds
They slow-lay me, blanket first:
I am a lady.

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 Craig W. Steele

spider web at dawn--
contrails
crisscross the sky


tide pools--
the empty halves
of sea shells



Craig W. Steele resides in the countryside of northwestern Pennsylvania, near Lake Erie.  When not writing, he's a professor of biology at Edinboro University.  In his quest to become a widely-published unknown poet, his poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, literary journals and magazines, most recently in The Lyric, Mused:  The BellaOnline Literary Review, and Wolf Willow Journal, among others, and he continues to write monthly poetry as "The Writer's Poet for Extra Innings online.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

worn hoe and spade
    proof
she loved her garden


great-grandfather's journal
upon the first page a lock of
great-grandmother's hair



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.

Haiku from Kevin M. Hibshman

Gave you back your ring
The moon kissed balcony
I think I will keep



Charmed when he saw us
The angel gave us something
A treasure to fear



Her time-damaged face
Lines of weariness and age
Let the light shine through



The curse of sugar
Bane of my hard existence
So sweet and deadly



Hard to leave the house
To leave love sleeping inside
As I walk away

Kevin M. Hibshman has been an active poet with work appearing in numerous journals and magazines since

1990.  He edited his own poetry magazine, FEARLESS, for sixteen years.  A new book is scheduled for release sometime during the fall of 2015.  Kevin received a BA in Liberal Arts from Union Institute and University/Vermont College in 2006.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

shifting wind
   the coyote's foreleg
      motionless

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.

Haiku by C. Angelo Caci

sailing

slips under blue satin sheets
head rests upon sky pillows
the prow parts a Venus mound



secrets

winds whisper softly . . .
surreptitiously,
to the leaves of a new rain.

C. Angelo Caci lives and writes, currently, in Santa Barbara, CA.  A bio, or portrait of the artist, would best be conveyed in a literary still life:  laptop with reading lamp clamped to the lid, a Merlot in a cut glass stemmed goblet, a pack of Garcia Vegas or Grenadiers, and a pair of reading glasses set on its lenses with one obtrusive stem slightly twisted sticking straight up readied.