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Haiku by Betsy Hearne, Allyson Whipple, and Juliet Wilson

Photo by Jongsun Lee on Unsplash

loose stitches
a goldfinch
mends the sky

Betsy Hearne
Urbana, IL, USA

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white egret
reflected in the pond
filmy camera lens

Allyson Whipple
St. Louis, MO, USA

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newly fledged blackbirds
in the garden —
shadow of a cat

Juliet Wilson
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Editor Bio: Lakshmi Iyer likes to live in the breath of words and sounds that speak of her observations, experiences and inner silences. She is the co-editor of amber i pause. Her interview, ‘New to Haiku:Advice to Beginners’ by The Haiku Foundation can be read here. She had her palette of 31 Indian poets sharing their poems in the recent August Per Diem of The Haiku Foundation here. Her collection of poems are portrayed in April 2024 in Mann’s Library Mann Library’s Daily Haiku

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