Water, Water Everywhere
Haiku by Lisa Billa, Swarna Bopali, Barbara Sabol, and Eavonka Ettinger
waterfall
only a murmur
faint mist
Lisa Billa
San Jose, California, USA
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blue sky
through the eagle's eye
threading the river
Swarna Bopali
Colombo, Sri Lanka
sandpipers
at low tide
an allegro of legs
Barbara Sabol
Akron, Ohio, U.S.
desert rain
palms out to welcome
its coolness
Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, CA
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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