Beginnings

beach day
hiding under the pier
sparrow nests

Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, California, USA

first roses
of the season
hope unfurling

Jennifer Gurney
Broomfield, Colorado, USA

bridal sari
raining blooms
of the flame tree

Sangita Kalarickal
Minnesota, USA
https://sangitakalarickal.com/

sudden thunder
the first rose
opens

Ruth Holzer
Potomac Falls, VA, USA

Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth coordinated the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry, the Public Poetry Project, and the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State Libraries. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG).

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