Birding

Haiku by Nancy Orr, Deborah Karl-Brandt, Ann Sullivan, Roberta Beach Jacobson

Birding
Photo by Lucas van Oort on Unsplash

the stillness
of the heron
sticky heat

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, ME USA


the lark and I
sharing the same blue sky
end of the holidays

Deborah Karl-Brandt
Bonn, Germany


low tide
a gull waits patiently
for the half-eaten peach

Ann Sullivan


putting
emeralds to shame
his tailfeathers

Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, IA, USA

https://linktr.ee/roberta_beach_jacobson


confined magnolia
a hawk overhead
pale against the sky

Lara Payne
Brentwood, MD

www.larapayne.com


Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer. She currently serves as the newsletter editor for the Haiku Society of America and is the author of the haiku chapbook Postcards from Texas.


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