WALES HAIKU JOURNAL
AUTUMN 2019
a curve
in the dead carp
mackerel sky
winter sunrise
salt swirls
on the highway
Brad Bennett
rain clouds
gather
the scent of lime flowers
Juliet Wilson
alone again
I open the window
to a winter star
Chen-ou Liu
dry heat
the silver lure slaps
a shallow wake
water strider
kicks sparks at
the setting sun
Erin Castaldi
the farmer's whistle
in every
ear of wheat
Elaine Patricia Morris
shallow stream
moonlight overflows
its low banks
Jianqing Zheng
briefly part
of my own life
memorial swing
Helen Buckingham
watercolour
the sky washes in
with the tide
Lucy Whitehead
kittiwakes
mom's last smile hangs
in the air
Debbie Strange
even with nowhere
to go it goes
wisteria
Kath Abela Wilson
heartbeat—
the sun’s edge spreads on the ice
martin gottlieb cohen
clear May morning—
filling the hummingbird feeder
with sugar water
purpling knoll and hollow—
one cluster of lupine
after another
midsummer coolness—
the slowly flashing fireflies
deepen the quiet
Wally Swist
rain –
earwigs spill
from fennel stalks
Sarah-Jane Crowson
bindweed twists
to the top of the hedge –
summer's end
Máire Morrissey Cummins
not a cloud
the blue jay
nowhere
falling rain
the rising scent
of earthworms
Jeff Hoagland
deep forest
a pair of pileated woodpeckers
dart pine to pine
Bruce H. Feingold
Beach stroll
waves steer
the day ashore
Padmini K
dying grass moon
dad's breathing
shallows
Claire Vogel Camargo
old badger sett
the deep earth scent
of emptiness
John Hawkhead
storm clouds darken…
the scattered homecoming
of carrion kites
Mark Miller
sunset
a backboard
reverberates
light mist
a hare’s breath
from the clover
low light
the shades of white
lining the deer’s belly
Laurie Greer
down with fever...
the fading call of
the street vendor
K. Ramesh
lakeside coldness
the necks of ducks
folded in
Adjei Agyei-Baah
in the same reflex
i reach you as you open
your eyes for the last time
Emma Baines
slicing a pumpkin
mother talks of my sister
elsewhere
Srinivasa Rao Sambangi
desert sunrise
following tracks
that follow tracks
deep winter
things found living
in the flour
Bryan Rickert
before its sound
the smell of rain
bush sassafras
Marietta McGregor
falling leaf
the shape of my ear
in its shadow
Réka Nyitrai
binary stars...
my prayer still ends
with his name
Shreya Narang
outgoing tide
the die-away sighs
of a whistle buoy
Joanne van Helvoort
downpour: only the tall pine's upward thrust
Sheila K. Barksdale
on a whim
we visit our burial plot
. . . snow falling
early frost
the finch undisturbed
at the feeder
Edward J. Rielly
in the lull
between breezes
tui song
Isabel Caves
a raven’s shadow
extending the night –
autumn equinox
Cristina Angelescu
hanging moon —
father swings a hammer
at the panes
autumn chill —
mowing the lawn
around a molehill
breath diving —
between the ridges
softness of waves
Goran Gatalica
pregnant again . . .
the squeak of a mouse
inside the pantry
John McManus
snow falling…
again I call
for the cat
M. Shayne Bell
first stars…
silver river now
just a sound
Srinivas S
father-son time
I claim to see the ladybug
he points out
Bob Lucky
lucerne field
a kangaroo clears
the barbed wire
deepening dusk
a frog-chorus
fills the creek bed
Gavin Austin
inching up
with every cricket chirp
harvest moon
Agnes Eva Savich
country lane
losing myself in the darkness
between stars
David J Kelly
breeze in the tall grass
with every ripple
a change of color
Debbie Scheving
the imam
an hour late for prayers —
thickening haze
Usman Karofi
you and me
and all that we have lost
snow moon
Claudia Messelodi
raking . . .
a millipede
uncoils
cleaning my rosary
and ablution kettle . . .
day moon
Taofeek Ayeyemi
family night –
a piece of the puzzle
chewed by the dog
Jennifer Carr
following me
along the park trail
the wren's song
Stephen O'Connell
bats
emerge from the dark
summer twilight
Stella Damarjati
orange bucket. . .
thin ice
over mulberry leaves
Carl Mayfield
gauzy veil
over the moon—
nightingale song
Elaine Wilburt
country cousin
what he calls
starflies
Peter Newton
All Souls' Day
losing the morning dream
to a crow's caw
Richa Sharma
the swoop and skim of
swallows over the lake
the ache in my legs
David Urwin
twisted pine
the ooze of resin
from an old limb
Lorraine Haig
tomato patch
night after night
the deer return
Lewis Colyar
cold moonlight
the weight of things
left undone
I walk through the smell
of a sodden campfire —
winter sun
Nathalie Buckland
Ash leaves slither
in your hair I thread
the Summer wind
Bernard White
summer leaves crunch toward autumn
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Thunderclap –
my frightened nephew
hugs a Barbie doll
Opeyemi Babafemi
white hair
in my beard
autumn clover
Andy McLellan
empty nests –
a tree offers the sky
its silence
Valentina Meloni
summer end
the last drip of
popsicle on my elbow
Anita Sahoo
mangoes...
flies fluttering around
my fingers
Aladodo Abdus-Salam
a young man checks
the scarecrow’s pockets
sound of wind
Jonathan Humphrey
Waiting in night's frost
Horizon to horizon
Path of speeding star
Matthew M C Smith
melancholy...
a shadow follows me
among yellow leaves
Lucia Cardillo
fading contrails
x marks the spot
where summer ends
Edward Cody Huddleston
foggy dawn...
a scent of flowers
I can't see
Oscar Luparia