A Haiku String by Susan Dale

Passions 2

Bodies heavy
with heat
Oh, the ache of it

   *****

Hot colors of the heart
spread out in the sun
to burn

   *****

Sensing the smoke of fire
Breathing
embered breath

   *****

Compulsions meet
in tangled skeins
of legs and arms

   *****

The language of our hearts
we feel
in our bodies

Susan Dale's poems and fiction are on Kind of a Hurricane Press, Ken*Again, Penman Review, Inner Art Journal, Feathered Flounder, Garbanzo, and Linden Avenue.  In 2007, she won the grand prize for poetry from Oneswan.  She has two published chapbooks on the internet:  Spaces Among Spaces by languageandculture.org and Bending the Spaces of Time by Barometric Pressure.

Haiku by Jonel Abellanosa

Before I Was Born

I miss running round
the late afternoon meadow
before I was born

golden light--
over the field of grass
before I was born

before I was born
Springtime conversed with Always
drops from the eves' thaw

Jonel Abellanosa resides in Cebu City, the Philippines.  Remembering things that seem to never have happened, he thinks this life on Earth may not be his first.  He continues to search for more proof that ultimate hope is real.  Instead of relying on science, he approaches poetry like a pilgrim, prayerful in discerning the eternal that other poets might have consciously or inadvertently left in their works; looking for universal hope expressing itself in different forms through stories of ordinary individuals.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

we rest by the sea
carafes of Prosecco outdoors
keening of white gulls


Spring afternoon
a queen wasp quietly
building her nest


morning crowishness
cantankerous racket
of being crow


on the fence posts
cowboy boots and hip waders
a woman's slipper


December's first ice
catfish and Northern pike
deeper and slower


red and white roses
children in the playground
sun above all



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, Writing the Whirlwind, Shamrock, and bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre).

Haiku by Nells Wasilewski

leaves long gone
fierce winter winds blow--bare limbs
shiver in protest


a cold winter night
warmth radiates between us
your heart next to mine


early spring morning
frost lingers--buttercups glisten
winter's fleeing kiss


icy waves spew wrath
upon a deserted shore
drowning self pity



Nells Wasilewski lives in a small southern town, seventy miles southeast of Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, Walter.  She retired from the mortgage industry in 2011 and began pursuing her lifelong dream of writing.  Her writing has been greatly influenced by her faith in Jesus Christ, her own experiences and nature.  She is currently working on daily devotionals.  Her work has appeared in Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry, 50 Haikus, Poetry Quarterly, Barefoot Review, and Dual Coast Magazine.

Haiku by Changming Yuan

Seascape:  Four Haiku

f2 may 8, 10

a daring spirit
trying to stir the whole sea
with its tiny beak

p16 may 8, 10

in grace and leisure
you dance with a raging storm
to the blue descent

f18 may 2, 10

however winds blow
all waves keep pushing forward
to the shore only

p19 may 2, 10

light rays at sunset
retreat to the ocean's heart
together with gulls



Changming Yuan, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013) grew up in rural China, holds a PhD in English, and currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press.  Since mid-2005, Yuan has published poetry in Asia Literary Review Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 889 other literary journals/anthologies across 30 countries.

Haiku by Changming Yuan

Chinese Gentility:  Four Confucian Haiku

Orchid:     Deep in the valley
                 Alone on an obscure spot
                 You bloom none the less

Lotus:       From foul decayed silt
                 You shoot clean against the sun
                 Never pollutable

Mum:       Hanging on and on
                Even when wishes wither
                You keep flowering

Plum:       Your brave bold blood dropped
                 As though to melt all world's snow
                 Before spring gathers



Changming Yuan, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013) grew up in rural China, holds a PhD in English, and currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press.  Since mid-2005, Yuan has published poetry in Asia Literary Review Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 889 other literary journals/anthologies across 30 countries.

Haiku by Changming Yuan

Two Domestic Haiku


The Dog

Although newly grown
Your teeth are strong enough to chew
All the hardest days


The Cat

Dyed with the dark night
Your black pupils can see through
The sunlight's secrets

Changming Yuan, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013) grew up in rural China, holds a PhD in English, and currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press.  Since mid-2005, Yuan has published poetry in Asia Literary Review Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 889 other literary journals/anthologies across 30 countries.