August Slips Away
Haiku by Boryana Boteva, Diane Webster, Kila Lim, Nicoletta Ignatti, Valorie Woerdehoff, Nancy Orr, Betsy Hearne, Rupa Anand, Susan Lee Roberts, Wilda Morris, and Sari Grandstaff
In Gratitude
Thank you to this week’s tip jar contributors!
- Karin Hedetniemi
- Nancy Brady
thunder storm
in August
my forgotten birthday
Boryana Boteva
Sofia, Bulgaria
tire swing calm
in August heatwaves
lost tennis shoe
Diane Webster
Delta, Colorado United States
www.dianewebster.com
august soiree
ladies in
diaphanous dresses
Kila Lim
Manila, Philippines
in the pantry
stock of dried figs—
late August
Nicoletta Ignatti
Castallena Grotte, Italy
smelling August shadows
toes deep
in wet grass
Valorie Woerdehoff
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
august wanes
splashes of red
along the highway
Nancy Orr
Lewiston, Maine, USA
red cabbage on sale
3 heads for 1
pickling August
Betsy Hearne
Urbana, IL, USA
sultry August —
pocketing the wind
two little girls
Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
Instagram @rupa.anand.775
Facebook: Rupa Anand
my friend texts me|
her august moon
heart beats
Susan Lee Roberts
Montesano, Washington, USA
dog days of August
my doberman
chases the neighbor’s duck
Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA
moon bathing
on this humid night
the August feels
Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, NY
Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki manuscript.
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