Earth and Sky
Haiku by Joanna Ashwell, Betsy Hearne, Radhika De Silva, and Sari Grandstaff
watered gladioli
the first stretch
of ruby sky
Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom
www.joannaashwell.com
picking sweet corn
the gift
of cloud cover
Betsy Hearne
Urbana, Illinois, USA
his gift
on her ring finger
star-studded sky
Radhika De Silva
Sri Lanka
extra innings
advancing along the baseline
the buck moon
Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, New York, USA
Twitter: @haikutopia
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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