Haiku by M.V. Montgomery

sound and sense

A distant horn honked,

defining the contours of
the outside city.

dreaming

This dreaming of mine:

like opening a too-large
umbrella indoors.

a day in the life

Pausing to remove

dry branch caught in soccer net:
morning goaltending.

*

As I plan a lunch,

checking expiration dates
helps me to decide.

*

inadvertently

washing dollar bill in pants:
money-laundering.



M.V. Montgomery is a professor at Life University. His most recent book is What We Did With Old Moons.

Haiku by Kelley White

ring around the moon

insects grow quiet—then thunder
then the deluge

today you gave me

roses and a nectarine--
still, i slept alone

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 André Surridge

pine branch

a cone flies off
to join the sparrows

warm dawn
waiting for wings to dry
the new monarch

 

white heron

preening winter
from her wings



André Surridge: Born in Hull, England, André lives in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has won several awards for haiku and tanka. His most recent being the inaugural Janice M. Bostok International Haiku Award, 2012.

Haiku by Harmony Hodges

Sunken ship

Sea monsters, dread locks

Chests of jewelry abound
Mermaids walk the plank

Sister

Take a grain of sand

Now you have a sister
Two sirens of the sea

Harmony Hodges is an artist living in Portland Oregon. She writes poetry and fiction and her work can be found online in the journal With Painted Words.

Haiku by Mary Orovan

apricots
furry angelic
orange

in a few days
spring painted herself
ecstatic

the madly
colorful death cries
of leaves

Reverse Haiku:

he was the rainbow
of my life
and the blueberries

Mary Orovan's book "Green Rain" is on Amazon.com. She has current or recent poems on line at 2River.org, Winter issue, and First Literary Review www.rulrul.4mg.com. Print journals include, "San Pedro River Review", "Poetry East", and many other publications. She's been writing poetry for about 12 years.

Haiku from John Miatech

Snow Squall

Chilly winter guest:
Snow squall off of Pt. Aux Chien
erasing the sky!


Haiku

Testicles, icicles

Everything hangs useless now
that it is winter!



Meetings

Ruby Valley, June
Ground squirrels commune in the road:
Open range country



Passing Through

little viceroy,
drunk again on purple thistle:
summer is passing



Ruby Mountains in July

Along the roadside
White mare, brown colt lie in sage:
Dawn, Ruby Mountains

John Miatech’s poems speak of wild places, of the spiritual relationship between humans and the Earth, of the deeper belief that everything in the natural world is alive and connected, and that you can find this out for yourself if you take the time. Growing up in Michigan, John has lived in California for most of his adult life. This has allowed him to roam the rich landscape of lakes and rivers, deserts, mountains and forests that these two regions provide, giving him a deep bond with the secret places of both areas, and with the voices that speak within their borders. His work has appeared in Anesthesia Review, BlazeVox, RiverSedge, Cellar Roots, Big River Poetry Review, Savasvati, Blue Lake Review and Northwest Review.

Haiku by Ayaz Daryl Nielsen

Blue-colored morning

dream wisps fading in-
to first thoughts

 

 

 

always a hair on

the bristles of my toothbrush

sometimes two

 

 

 

yesterday's main streets

all the half-

remembered somethings

 

 

 

 

ayaz daryl nielsen - poet/editor/husband/father/army veteran/x- roughneck (as on oil rigs)/x-hospice nurse/editor of bear creek haiku (20+years/110+issues), resplendent homes for poems include Lilliput Review, Shemom (ed Peggy),Yellow Mama (ed Cindy), Shamrock (Irish Haiku Society, a most favorite online poetry pub), Lalitamba, Kind Of A Hurricane Press (yay, Amy!), also various anthologies/some awards (all deeply embraced), poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart, and, Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, (both from the fierce poetry funhouse of ayaz daryl nielsen) beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)