welcome to #8 and two months of hedgerow! let’s celebrate with the news that there is a print issue in the pipeline. also, have a peek at our newly launched sister site wildflower poetry press http://wildflowerpoetrypress.wordpress.com thanks for all your support in making our small poems grow! with love & kindness…
Sandi Pray
Sandi Pray is a wild child who roams between mountain and marsh in North Carolina and Florida, http://ravencliffs.blogspot.com.
Rena Lindgren
at dawn I wash my face in sunlight
Rena Lindgren, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA enjoys singing, reading and writing poetry.
Angelee Deodhar
night train
trailing white exhaust
across the moon
Angelee Deodhar is an eye surgeon by profession. She is also a haiku poet, translator and artist from India. Her haiku/haiga has been published internationally in various books, journals and on the internet.
David Ishaya Osu
full moon
i remember all tales
of mama
heaven was in
our village
David Ishaya Osu is a Nigerian poet and a street photography enthusiast. He believes in hedonism, and says his role is ‘Air’. He is just obsessed with living.
Zee Zahava
Still Arm-In-Arm
linking elbows in a town that is not ours
I ask Is this okay?
you pull my arm closer to your body
Where can I get a really good cookie?
you ask
your lips brushing against my ear
4 strangers (older than we are)
squeeze by on a narrow strip of sidewalk
we are anonymous here
I suggest the bakery we’ve been to before
But if that doesn’t work out
I tell you
I know another place
we like to return to the familiar
but also (or so we tell ourselves)
we are open to the unexpected
we arrive
still arm-in-arm
at the bakery we know
they have exactly the kind of cookie you are craving
But next time we’re here
you say
We could try the other bakery
Zee Zahava lives in Ithaca, N.Y. She writes most of her poems in a small notebook while taking her early morning walks. She is the editor of brass bell, an online haiku journal: http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/
Robyn Cairns
she lay on the warm pier looking skyward and dreamt
Robyn Cairns is a Melbourne based poet who shares her poetry and photography on twitter @robbiepoet.
Mary Hohlman
Mary Hohlman, USA, is a mother, writer, student, and athlete. She enjoys writing Japanese and short verse poetry. She finds daily inspiration outdoors at her home in Northern California and spending time with her 4 year old daughter. http://www.poetrypretty.wordpress.com http://www.maryhohlman.com/
Sarah Thursday
Fixing a Hole
How do you fill
a chasm?
With stone or wood
or earth?
An artist doesn’t fill
a chasm
but instead creates
an amphitheater
and floods the space
with song
Steep gouged walls
become a torso
its beating heart
begins to sing
Sarah Thursday is a music obsessed, poetry advocate and documents her antics on http://www.SarahThursday.com
Tim Gardiner
the caterpillar
hangs by a single thread
hostage to the wind –
I face the loneliness
of another winter
Tim Gardiner is a professional ecologist who has written scientific papers, natural history books and poetry which has been published in literary journals such as Blithe Spirit and Frogpond.
Tobi Cogswell
Look up—
Not to the oceans of clouds,
or the moss dripping fragrant
with the turn of season.
Not to a place inside
that furrows your brow,
one side of your lip folded
across your teeth. Not to
photos, memories,
dreams of ancients
once smiling, now dead.
Not to the sound of coffee,
or smell of melodies
golden and gorgeous,
and beckoning.
Not to the clock ticking,
or the sound of the
far-off train, so distant
it could be mistaken for thunder.
Not to the dirty pennies
jingling in the jar.
Look at me.
I am…
Tobi Cogswell lives in Torrance, CA. She is the co-editor and co-publisher of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com). Her seventh chapbook, “The Coincidence of Castles”, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press. You can reach Tobi at editor@sprreview.com.
Jamie Wimberly
I heard your murmurs,
You, drunken streets of Dublin,
I heard and awoke.
Jamie Wimberly has been writing haiku for many years with some success, including publication and awards. Recently, Jamie has been publishing haiku everyday on Twitter (@haiku_america).
Carole Johnston
where do the homeless
go when it rains?
broken winged butterfly
Carole Johnston lives in Lexington, Kentucky USA where she drives around Bluegrass backroads with a notebook and camera in the front seat, capturing the haiku moment. Journeys:Getting Lost, Carole’s first chapbook of haiku and tanka, is now available for presale from Finishing Line Press. The books will be delivered in January. https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2211
S.M. Abeles
when the wind
blows the whole sky
blue
the cool way
you look at me
S.M. Abeles is just a simple poet.
Helen Buckingham
Royal Swans
circle the moat…
how little they know
Helen Buckingham has been writing ku for the past couple of decades in Bristol, and has recently moved to Wells, the smallest cathedral city in England, deep in the heart of Somerset.
Matsukaze
when they called me
“creole n*****!”
ran into grandma’s arms
she brushed tears aside
giving me a sweet dough lemon tart
*
nothing really needs to be said
to my right, the vivid blue of hydrangea this autumn
Matsukaze, has been writing tanka for the last 10 years. He is featured in Atlas Poetica, and the Tanka Kajin Club Magazine. He is the founder of the Chocolate Cosmos Tanka Study Group @CCosmosTankaSC on twitter.
Michael Tolleson
Lament
Michael Tolleson, Seattle, Washington, is an Autistic Savant Artist, who has no formal art training, but instead relies on the use of the huge amount of stored information that his Asperger’s mind has observed and retained. During his career of only 3 years of painting, he has painted more than 600 paintings, and each painting is usually completed in less than one hour of painting time regardless of size. He states that he feels trance-like during the actual act of painting, and is reluctant to take credit for the finished work as he feels the autism is actually the artist. http://www.MichaelTollesonArtist.com
I keep wanting to click “like” after every poem. This is a wonderful collection.
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lovely issue, another, & happy to learning more about England–Wells–& angels that overlook cities & chickadees and hummingbirds that call forth poetry!
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Thank you Caroline,honored to be here,best wishes,angelee
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perfect simply perfect
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A wonderful collection !
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wonderful collection
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thanks
for sharing
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An octagon of hedgerows, displayed as I make the rounds.
Ever expanding, still growing, and showing no bounds.
Well chose verse, as well as art.
You are off to a very fine start.
From bring me to my knees subtle to surprisingly astounds.
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Reblogged this on poetrypretty and commented:
Happy to be part of this lovely journal with many other great writers! Have a look!
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