Color My World

one blue butterfly
wandering
afternoon sky

Lisa Billa
San Jose, California, USA
Bluesky: @lisasbilla.bsky.social

blue-eyed grass
flanking the path
June gloom

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autumn fire
in June
hillside poppies

B. L. Bruce
Corralitos, California, USA
www.blbruce.com
IG: @b_l_bruce
Twitter: @the_poesis

berry picking...
our mouths stained
red

Nancy Brady
Huron, Ohio, USA
www.nbsmithblog.wordpress.com
Bluesky: @nanbrady123.bsky.social‬
Twitter: @NancySm93536930

last day of August . . .
leaves barely yellowed
in the sultry sunset

Allyson Whipple
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
www.allysonwhipple.com

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).

Tip Jar

Haiku Girl Summer will always be a free publication. If you want to make a financial contribution, please visit Allyson Whipple’s Buy Me a Coffee page. Mention Haiku Girl Summer in the comment box and your donation will go into a pool that will be divided among the guest editors at the end of the 2025 editorial run.

Merch

After repeated requests, I set up a Haiku Girl Summer merch shop. You can order T-shirts and tank tops, along with hats, mugs, buttons, and a spiral notebook. Email me if there are other items you’d like to see!