Modern Haiku

Dust in the wind —
a little boy’s tenderness
for a lizard

Rebecca Lilly
Modern Haiku 41.2 (2010)

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last light
on evening primroses
the moths begin

David Steele
Modern Haiku 28.1 (1997)

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back and forth
between concrete barriers
the box turtle

Patricia A. Laster
Modern Haiku 32.3 (2001)

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fireflies plenty of light to see her by

Edward Tick
Modern Haiku 16.1 (1985)

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five generations
of plowing—still they turn up:
these flint arrowheads

Evelyn Tooley Hunt
Modern Haiku 10.2 (1979)

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oil swirls
in a sand castle moat
screeching gulls

Joe McKeon
2016 Robert Spiess Contest - Second Place

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stopping
to s t r e t c h
bend in the stream

Robin White
Modern Haiku 53.3 (2022)

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train tunnel —
sliding a bookmark
between pages of a mystery

Alan Bridges
2022 Robert Spiess Contest - First Place

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chicory blossoms
none of the paint chips
quite right

Mary Ann Conley
Modern Haiku 55.2 (2024)

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father’s day —
an airplane flies us over
the fault line

Michael Meyerhofer
Modern Haiku 42.1 (2011)

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