A Hundred Gourds

index

page 6

woodland brome
bend with dew –
crescent moon

Máire Morrissey-Cummins - Ireland

my name on her badge nightshade berries

Sandra Simpson - New Zealand

haiku poet's grave
pointing at the harvest moon
a stone angel

Chen-ou Liu - Canada

harvest moon ...
I wander in the mist
between seasons

Thomas Powell - N. Ireland

the last to leave shadows in the mist

Simon Hanson - Australia

white skyline
reading the script
of swallows

Helga Stania - Switzerland

mom saved nothing
no handprint in brown clay
lone goose flying high

Liz Nakazawa - USA

tracing the contours
of mountains
my mind wanders

David Rachlin - USA

loneliness –
each peak wrapped
in its own mist

Sanjuktaa Asopa - India

orange sunset
our long shadows
collecting firewood

Simon Hanson - Australia

first frost
the smell of wood smoke
in my dog's fur

Andy Burkhart - USA

bottom of the racecourse
a fox
waits for nightfall

Jennifer Fell - Australia

two weeks
after the funeral
her hebe turns black

André Surridge - New Zealand

autumn sun
in the shaving mirror
trying not to wince

Peter Macrow - Australia

night frost
a marine struggles with
his Texan accent

Roman Lyakhovetsky - Israel