Earth and Sky

Haiku by Joanna Ashwell, Betsy Hearne, Radhika De Silva, and Sari Grandstaff

Photo Credit: Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash

watered gladioli
the first stretch
of ruby sky

Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom
www.joannaashwell.com

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picking sweet corn
the gift
of cloud cover

Betsy Hearne
Urbana, Illinois, USA

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his gift
on her ring finger
star-studded sky

Radhika De Silva
Sri Lanka

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extra innings
advancing along the baseline
the buck moon

Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, New York, USA
Twitter: @haikutopia

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Photo Credit: Ganapathy Kumar on Unsplash

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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