uncertain passage
sounding the depths of silence
surfacing at last
© D. Avery 2019
I am a teacher of middle school mathematics. I enjoy kayaking, yard-saling and reading. Discover more at Shift N Shake
Here is the third haiku from our featured haiku writer for the theme of Emergence.
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only my leavings
moulted feathers, cast off skins
litter my life’s rooms
© D. Avery 2019
I live on an island off the coast of Massachusetts with a husband and a cat. Discover more at Shift N Shake
Here is the second haiku from our featured haiku writer for the theme of Emergence.
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becoming themselves
polliwogs don’t miss their tails
leaping into life
© D. Avery 2019
I think, I speak; I read, I write; I drink, I pee; those are the ins and outs of me; I play with words, sometimes forgetting propriety. Discover more at Shift N Shake
Here is the first haiku from our featured haiku writer for the theme of Emergence.
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into the future –
a desert of broken jade
where our palace stood
© Isabel Caves 2018
Here is the fifth haiku from our Featured Haiku Writer – Isabel Caves. There is so much magic in the world around us. Isabel loves sharing this magic through her nature and wildlife photography. Discover more at Isabel Caves.
We started the week with a memory and end it with a glimpse of the future …
This haiku is part of our PORTAL theme!
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the wormhole closes …
now an ochre city of
opal-studded sand
© Isabel Caves 2018
Here is the fourth haiku from our Featured Haiku Writer – Isabel Caves. Isabel loves writing haiku, lots of haiku! She likes to play around with different styles of short poetry. Sometimes a little magic creeps in too … Discover more at Isabel Caves.
I liked the action of the portal closing and revealing the writer’s new destination.
This haiku is part of our PORTAL theme!
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on the other side –
sparks of cerulean blue
crackle in the breeze
© Isabel Caves 2018
Here is the second haiku from our Featured Haiku Writer – Isabel Caves. Isabel is the author of Strange Beings and uses her blog at Isabel Caves as an outlet for her creativity which expresses itself in photographs, stories and poetry.
This haiku stood out because it tells of what is on the other side of the portal, I imagined the portal to be at the writer’s back.
This haiku is part of our PORTAL theme!
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touch of plum blossom –
returned to a memory
of a soft pink spring
© Isabel Caves 2018
Here is the first haiku from our Featured Haiku Writer – Isabel Caves. Isabel is a poet and fiction writer who loves to share all the weird and wonderful things that tumble from her mind. Read more of her creativity at Isabel’s Blog.
This gentle, almost soft haiku stood out to me from the first read through. I like the way memory acts as a portal.
This haiku is part of our PORTAL theme!
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