Bee to the Blossom

Haiku by C.X. Turner, Juliet Wilson, Tuyet Van Do, Joanna Ashwell, and Nancy Orr

Photo by Christoph on Unsplash

tan line
vanishing
with the bees

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scaling
the long grass
lone bumblebee

C.X. Turner
Warwickshire, UK
Twitter: lover_poetic
Instagram: love.rpoetic

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dandelion clocks —
already too late
for the bees

Juliet Wilson
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Substack: Crafty Green Poet

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scorching heat
feasting on the watermelon
buzzing bees

Tuyet Van Do
Australia

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forever sunflowers
the bumblebee song
of golden sky

Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom
Website: www.joannaashwell.com

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flowering shrub bee haze

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, ME, USA

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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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