Category Archives: Haiga

Issue 35 – Haiga

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weaned
all the things I can do
baby-free

Agnes Eva Savich, USA (senryu) &  Elizabeth Gold, Sweden (photograph)


spent
with three hands––
vacation time

Anannya Dasgupta, India


gender reassignment the scarred mesa of your chest

Debbie Strange, Canada


kelp canopy
I wander the minds
of an octopus

GRIX, USA (senryu) & Shloka Shankar, India (artwork)


second shot
distancing myself
from distancing myself

Kevin Valentine, USA (senryu) & Steve Valentine, USA (artwork)


Sunday roast . . .
our unexpected guest
rubs his hands

Marion Clarke, Northern Ireland


mirror . . .
how many false selves
do i have?

Michael Morell, USA


lofty shrine . . .
I search the I
in me

Milan Rajkumar, India


Thanksgiving
wanting more
than equality

Nika, Canada

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Issue 34 – Haiga

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the red light
my round bindi
strikes his eyes

Amrutha Prabhu, India


two parentheses
I walk inside
to rest

Senryu source: Celebrating Childhood by Adonis, translated by Khaled Mattawa

Christine L. Villa, USA


peer pressure one of the herd mentality

Debbie Strange, Canada


hallowed ground
hand in hand
with echoes
lightning strike
the fizz and crackle
of our first kiss

John Hawkhead, United Kingdom


taking shape inside me, you

Julie Schwerin, USA


hotel illusion
light and shadow play
across a facade

Kate MacQueen, USA


rocky road
a month of submissions
and rejections

Mark Gilbert, United Kingdom


antidepressant
the doctor ups my dose
of vitamin G

Mark Meyer, USA


yin yang
she knows how to handle
my moods

Milan Rajkumar, India

old friends chat
miles of boardwalk
to reach the point
poppy––
holding his memory
as he held us

Olivia Ark, Australia


Covid-19
when a cold was just a cold

Pris Campbell, USA


walking to think I happened

where time tempers you a showering of dust

Shloka Shankar, India

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