Birdsong

Haiku by Vidya Shankar, Juliet Wilson, Wilda Morris, and Katja Fox

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

bird song
earth language classes
at break of dawn

Vidya Shankar
Chennai, India
Instagram: vidya.shankar.author

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song thrushes sing
after the downpour —
petrichor

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

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empty nest
my daughter
watches the fledglings

Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, IL, USA

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ode to joy —
my world is filled
with birdsong

Katja Fox
Cambridge, England, UK

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Editor Bio: Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.

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