Sunny Days

Haiku by Joana Figueiredo, Mary McCormack, Nancy Orr, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, and Mariel Herbert

Sunny Days
Photo by Illuminous Design on Unsplash

torrid glance
the salt of the sea
stares at the sun

Joana Figueiredo
Aveiro, Portugal
Twitter/X:
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honeycomb light
they sleep in
till midday

Mary McCormack
www.marymwriter.com


a dragonfly
rides on my life jacket
bright sunshine

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, ME USA


sun-filled walk . . .
above the tree line
a cell tower

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, Ohio USA


first wax
the milk thistle outside
in full sun

Mariel Herbert (she/her)


Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer. She currently serves as the newsletter editor for the Haiku Society of America and is the author of the haiku chapbook Postcards from Texas (Cuttlefish Books, 2023).


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