Category Archives: Haiku Sequence

Daily Haiku: Oct. 26, 2023

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

Haiku Sequence by Kathryn Haydon Midnight Sky at the outdoor concert  lightning slices sky . . . the conductor’s wand bows brush strings  releasing a fugue into locust night

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Haiku Sequence by Ingrid Bruck

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

for linda stoltzfoos, kidnapped June 21, 2020 you disappear the first day of summer hummingbird   slant light black clouds rumble coyote howls   colliding fronts blow in a storm moon in mist   searching for you cumulus clouds roll … Continue reading →

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Haiku Sequence by Roberta Beary

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

    Memorial Service dark winter sky mourners approach in single file   memorial service — work on the left family on the right   slide show a handsome young soldier with the same nose   eulogy — his only … Continue reading →

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Haiku Sequence by Roberta Beary

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

This haiku sequence was taken from Roberta Beary’s book, Deflection, published in 2015 by Accents Publishing. CARETAKER – I florida sunshinemother soaks upthe shade seasidewe turnmother’s chair cherry blossomsthe incessant soundof mother’s cough mother’s day only the tulipscome calling in the wheels of mother’s … Continue reading →

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Haiku Sequence by Renée Owen

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

  So Much of Life                                  making art at your bedside the vibrancy of blue     faint footprints all I love in shadows   each breath I hold for you shavasana   your old quilt— sleeping with the stars … Continue reading →

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A Haiku Sequence by Mary Stevens

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Toledo Steel Sun sideof the arenaheated bull within a whirling capethe matador’s stance Toledo steel—he waves an earfor the cheering crowd workers rake sandover the scent of blood flamenco moonthe special at the innrabo de toro   by Mary Stevens … Continue reading →

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A Haiku Sequence by Michael Ketchek

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Four Seasons of Sun spring sun for her he plucks flowers from a neighbor’s garden   summer sun his pregnant wife’s lips dripping tomato   autumn sun trying to brush the burrs from her long brown hair   winter sun … Continue reading →

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A Haiku Sequence by Donna Bauerly

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

leave taking watching the lights go out  one red maple         after  another         winter maples  the red-haired girl     knee deep in autumn  remembering  green   by Donna Bauerly (USA)

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A Haiku Sequence by Frank Higgins

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Death of a Friend        chemo her face lost in the pillow   a final gift smell of the rain in the wet clogs    empty bed  fluffing the indent  from the pillow                                  … Continue reading →

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A Haiku Sequence by Ruth Holzer

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

One April   deathwatch days  a cloud of gnats   April breeze  grieving for the living   Thursday’s child  she doesn’t know it’s there anymore    so often crying wolf now the wolf crying for you   no more lovable … Continue reading →

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