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.

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 She currently works as an academic in the field of language and literacy, but in the world of poetry, she is (mostly) unpublished and unfinished and savoring the ride!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.