Golden Years

Allyson’s Note: As this year’s series wraps up on September 1st, you’ll see extra poems in the issues this week. I want to share as many of these wonderful summer ku as possible before we wrap for the year!

Betsy Hearne
Urbana, Illinois, USA

grandpa's
tractor in the shed
drought

Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
https://linktr.ee/roberta_beach_jacobson

my cane and I
sit in the cool shade
old friends

Miriam Sagan
USA

Rose bush
A smile sweeps
On an elders face

Diana Raab
Santa Barbara, CA
https://www.dianaraab.com

nursing home
constant watching
for the sound of footseps

Fatma Zohra Habis
Algiers

running
between the clotheslines
Grandma’s washday

Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, IL, USA

bottled guava drink
granma's half-smile hides
a sun kissed grove

Anju Kishore

cloud peaks —
Grandma chases a red balloon
after the toddler

Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
Instagram @rupa.anand.775
Facebook: Rupa Anand

vacation at grandma's
cicada's symphony
singing me to sleep

Tuyet Van Do
Australia

noon stillness
grandpa smokes
behind his last tomato plan

Joy Hallinan
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

snow cones
grandma pulls her bra
out of the icebox

Amber Winter
New Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

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