welcome to #75 of hedgerow. thanks everyone, for simply being here! enjoy…

 

with love & kindness,

 

caroline skanne
founding editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a poet at dawn…
the rooster first
to find his voice

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her garden
the daisies
untouched

Elmedin Kadric was born in Novi Pazar, Serbia, but writes out of Helsingborg, Sweden. A student of both longer and shorter forms of poetry, and an avid observer of everything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiga by Pris Campbell have been published in numerous journals over the years. A former clinical psychologist, she lives in the Greater West Palm Beach, FL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rock pools
the refreshing chill
after sundown

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gray sea
I search each day
for traces of you

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silvery moon
baby and I asleep
on the rocking chair

Christina Sng is a poet, writer, and artist. Visit her online at christinasng.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the old yard
once full of scrap
and rust
now home to
a myriad violets

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the day
the fools gather
in the circle
I kick off my shoe
and join the dance

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a distant echo
of mad loon songs
my spirit
left sleeping
under northern skies

Joy McCall lives in Norwich, England, growing older but not much wiser. Most of her books are available on Amazon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiga by Pris Campbell have been published in numerous journals over the years. A former clinical psychologist, she lives in the Greater West Palm Beach, FL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It took me years
       of lacework classes
to make the runner
on my dining table

but you – light-footed,
      eight-eyed spinner –
have simply tiptoed
the night, tracing

a garland
       across my window.

(First published in The Dawntreader, Indigo Dreams Publishing.)

Valerie Morton is a UK based poet who lives beside a river and enjoys writing poetry about the natural world. She has taught at a mental health charity. She hosts workshops at her home and from January 2016 has been Poet in Residence at the Clinton-Baker Pinetum in Hertfordshire, UK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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between
thunderstorms…
eyes closed
we breathe every
scent of the calm

Pat Geyer lives in East Brunswick, NJ, USA. Her home is surrounded by the parks and lakes where she finds her inspiration in Nature. Published in several journals, she is an amateur photographer and poet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

a flower
so secret
she blooms
in loneliness
and silence

(a found poem using Henrietta Dumont’s 1851 book The Language of Flowers)

Ed Bremson lives in Raleigh, NC, USA, where he writes poetry, watches movies, and just generally tries to stay out of trouble.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

staggering
across the crosswalk–
a butterfly

Gabriel Patterson (@GabePatterson77) lives in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) with his family. He escapes the city’s neon lights by writing poetry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiga by Pris Campbell have been published in numerous journals over the years. A former clinical psychologist, she lives in the Greater West Palm Beach, FL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wind from the northeast
he moves their wedding pics
into the cloud

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after months apart
they talk about this and that
(not the other thing)

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packed waiting room
I can barely hear
The Sounds of Silence

Ian Willey is an American social scientist now living in Japan. He hopes to someday see senryu and haiku on the backs of cereal boxes.