Healing
Haiku by Adele Evershed, Betsy Hearne, and Vidya Shankar
heat wave
the dark brown tan
of hydrangea leaves
Adele Evershed
Wilton, CT, USA
corn tassels
my daughter's
silken hair
Betsy Hearne
Urbana, IL, USA
fading eyesight
the crescent moon
still bright in dreams
Vidya Shankar
Chennai, India
Editor Bio: Lakshmi Iyer likes to live in the breath of words and sounds that speak of her observations, experiences and inner silences. She is the co-editor of ‘amber i pause’. Her interview, ‘New to Haiku:Advice to Beginners’ by The Haiku Foundation can be read here. She had her palette of 31 Indian poets sharing their poems in the recent August Per Diem of The Haiku Foundation here. Her collection of poems are portrayed in April 2024 in Mann’s Library Mann Library’s Daily Haiku
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