One Last Picnic
Haiku by many poets (they exceed the character limit for the subheader)
gnarled apricot tree
still bears fruit—so many
climbing children
Miriam Sagan
USA
spilling the beans
a few too many
picnic beers
Colleen M. Farrelly
Miami, FL, USA
potluck
pear salad served
on lettuce
Amber Winter
New Freedom, Pennsylviania, USA
campfire cooking . . .
a hint of wood notes
to the hamburgers
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, Ohio, USA
under the pine tree
picnic table carved with initials
ants march on
Diane Webster
Delta, Colorado United States
www.dianewebster.com
heat warning
brewing iced tea
before midday
Jessica Allyson
Ottawa, Canada
at the pond
licking the shoreline
ice cream
Carla Schwartz
Meredith, New Hampshire and Carlisle, Massachussets, USA
new love
ripening
blackberries
Sherry Reniker
Kent, Washington USA
honor system . . .
scribbling a note
for tonight's tomatoes
Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
patiently I wait
slowly turning over the embers
golden crust on my marshmallow
Jennifer Gurney
Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Support system
Coffee and doughnuts
Arches of violets
Sarah Mahina Calvello
San Francisco, California, USA
hot and humid
the cucumbers
grow like weeds
Nancy Orr
Lewiston, Maine, USA
ripe mango
the drip
of sticky hands
Nitu Yumnam
UAE
ice cream cone
only thing I let my
nose kiss
Laila Brahmbhatt
New York, New York, USA
fish and chip supper
we sprinkle salt
into old wounds
Adele Evershed
Wilton, Ct, USA
Bluesky: @adlibby
back for tea
a bucket of tadpoles
swishing beside me
Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom
www.joannaashwell.com
unripe honeydew
using two hands
to push the spoon
Mary McCormack
www.marymwriter.com
Instagram: @haiku_mary
kitchen garden
fresh picked snap peas
sweet green crispness
JL Huffman
Blue Ridge Mountains of NC
jlhuffman.com
Twitter: @JoanHuffmanMD
fresh greens
ladybug eating aphids
picnic time for all
Marjorie Pezzoli
San Diego, California, USA
www.PezzoliArt.com
late dinner outside
bird songs
close out the evening
Caroline Wermuth
State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current managing editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki manuscript.
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A whole picnic spread in these haiku from beans to ice cream, and just about everything in between. Happy Summer to all! It's been a blast!
Like winning the haiku lottery!
so much
of a good thing
I almost can’t stand it : )