Luminous
Haiku by B. L. Bruce, Jessica Allyson, Vidya Shankar and Paula Sears
sunlight dancing
beneath the willows
morning quiet
B. L. Bruce (she, her)
Corralitos, California, USA
Twitter: @the_poesis; Instagram: @b_l_bruce
school’s out
sunfish meander
through the canal
Jessica Allyson
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
waxing crescent
shedding light
on the darkness within
Vidya Shankar
Chennai, India
moonlight
a tussock moth
milkweed to milkweed
Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
Editor Bio: C.X. Turner (she/they) is the pen name for a social worker, manager and writer, living and working in the UK. They love experimenting with Japanese short-forms and collaborating with other poets. Co-Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, their debut solo collection, evergreen: a collection of haiku, senryū and tanka was recently published by Alba Publishing and they are also the author of anemones: a mini haiku chapbook (Yavanika Press), and co-author of Building Sandcastles: a book of short poems (Literary Revelations). Find them on X @lover__poetic.
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