welcome to #32 of hedgerow, featuring eleven poets & artists. a massive thank you to readers & contributors alike. you all bring joy!
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moss spores . . .
my daughter picks a bouquet
for the fairy queen
.
my father calls
from across town —
a rainbow
.
watching boys skip stones . . .
she tosses maple seeds
into the air
Julie Warther (@JulieWarther) lives in Dover, Ohio and serves as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. (www.hsa-haiku.org). Her haiku chapbook “What Was Here” is available through Folded Word Press. http://foldedword.bigcartel.com/product/what-was-here
sweeping forbidden!
a child with a banner
under cherry blossoms
.
a frog on the moon –
the stork deletes
the news
.
my broken biffacals-
I fall in love
at first sight
Lavana Kray is from Iasi – Romania. She is passionate about writing and photography. The nature and the events of her life are topics of inspiration. Her work has been published in: Haiku Canada Review, Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi, World Haiku Association, Daily Haiga, Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Eucalypt, Acorn, Ardea, Ginyu, Presence, Traversées and others. She was chosen for Haiku Euro Top 100-edition 2014.This is her blog: http://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.ro
yesterday – sunshine, friends, art, lunch, river
today – low cloud obscures all
pathetic fallacy
Jo Waterworth lives in Glastonbury, UK, where she has been writing poetry for many years. She blogs at jowaterworthwriter.Wordpress.com and has had a pamphlet of short poetry published by Poetry Space of Bristol.
Tom Slagle loves wilderness, wild rivers, good coffee, literature, travel, play, and kindness. A native of Colorado, he now lives and loves in the desert southwest, USA.
a long night
finally the colours
seep into the valley
.
low tide
sunlight ripples
over rippled sand
Simon Hanson lives in rural South Australia relishing the open spaces and distant horizons. He spent a number of years in the philosophy department of Flinders University which he thoroughly enjoyed though he did have a difficult time persuading others that Beauty is an objective feature of the universe and not just in the eye of the beholder.
zoo torpor
a flight of swallows
sweeps over the big cats
.
park scents
the dog-minder’s leads
criss-crossing
.
upside down
she waits
for gymnastics
David Serjeant lives in Derbyshire, UK. He is the current editor of Blithe Spirit, journal of the British Haiku Society. His interests include photography and pottering about (escaping everything) on his allotment. He publishes poetry and works in progress at http://distantlightning.blogspot.co.uk/ He also writes about his experiences with multiple sclerosis at https://davesmagicalbrain.wordpress.com/
nightjar
shadow of birdsong
evaporated dreams
.
the prerecorded blue
sounds of the morning
crow
Mike Andrelczyk is currently living in Strasburg, PA. Also lived in Los Angeles, Ca. and Lewes, De. He likes writing haiku about the ocean, potatoes, moons, plants – mostly little things except the ocean which is huge, and the moon which looks little but isn’t. Follow on Twitter @MikeAndrelczyk.
Caroline Skanne, Rochester, UK, is obsessed with anything wild and free. She is the founder of hedgerow: a journal of small poems. Her book ‘a hundred poems by caroline skanne’ is available from amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/hundred-small-poems-caroline-skanne/dp/1506022944
still pond–
holding my smile
in cupped hands
.
red river–
living in
a changing body
.
heavy rain–
blue sky
under our umbrellas
Robyn Cairns is a Melbourne based poet who shares her poetry and photography on twitter @robbiepoet.
You swallow my soul
Lost rivers run quietly
Through the mouth of you
.
This is a wild song
Out of control and crazy
Still, you dance closer
Sarah Frances Moran is editor of Yellow Chair Review. She has work published in Boston Poetry Magazine, Blackheart Magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, The Bitchin Kitsch, Elephant Journal and more. She resides in Waco, Texas with her partner and two chihuahuas.
Silver Brick Road
for Aly
If optimism is floral, you
are flourishing blooms
exploding pollen that instead
of making eyes water and itch,
eyes are forced to sparkle
and mouths from their corners
turn upward. Flowers with glitter
pollen residue rubbing on your
cheeks and your shirt and
your shoes. He said you really are
as you seem, all forceful
optimism endless like fields
of red poppies across silver brick
roads. You sing a song to calm
the giants from their castle clouds,
they lay at your feet to hear
your lullaby. Love, love, love—
girl, you are as you seem.
Sarah Thursday calls Long Beach, California, her home, where she advocates for local poets and poetry events. She runs a Long Beach-focused poetry website called CadenceCollective.net, co-hosts a monthly reading with one of her poetry heroes, G. Murray Thomas, and just started Sadie Girl Press as a way to help publish local and emerging poets. Her first full-length poetry collection, All the Tiny Anchors, is available now. Find and follow her on SarahThursday.com, Facebook, or Twitter.
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thank you, Poets/Artists, for the journeys, their refreshing details!
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thank you kindly Susan!
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Thank you so much for these beautiful poems.
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thank you for your kind words!
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I am happy to be here…Thank you, Caroline. It’s a great pleasure to read these poems.
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a pleasure to feature you Lavana, thank you!
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The one about the nightjar, and the picture poem about the wingbeat….
It is all good, but those two really got my attention.
Thanks, Myke
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thank you kindly Myke!
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