Golden Years
Haiku by Betsy Hearne, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Miriam Sagan, Diana Raab, Fatma Zohra Habis, Wilda Morris, Anju Kishore, Rupa Ananad, Tuyet Van Do, Joy Hallinan, and Amber Winter
Allyson’s Note: As this year’s series wraps up on September 1st, you’ll see extra poems in the issues this week. I want to share as many of these wonderful summer ku as possible before we wrap for the year!
Betsy Hearne
Urbana, Illinois, USA
grandpa's
tractor in the shed
drought
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
https://linktr.ee/roberta_beach_jacobson
my cane and I
sit in the cool shade
old friends
Miriam Sagan
USA
Rose bush
A smile sweeps
On an elders face
Diana Raab
Santa Barbara, CA
https://www.dianaraab.com
nursing home
constant watching
for the sound of footseps
Fatma Zohra Habis
Algiers
running
between the clotheslines
Grandma’s washday
Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, IL, USA
bottled guava drink
granma's half-smile hides
a sun kissed grove
Anju Kishore
cloud peaks —
Grandma chases a red balloon
after the toddler
Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
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vacation at grandma's
cicada's symphony
singing me to sleep
Tuyet Van Do
Australia
noon stillness
grandpa smokes
behind his last tomato plan
Joy Hallinan
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
snow cones
grandma pulls her bra
out of the icebox
Amber Winter
New Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA
Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki.
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Such an enjoyable selection.