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hedgerow a journal of small poems
#111
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windblown days the rose thorns scratch at heaven is it treason to put the planet first? sunlit horses packhorse bridge my wish for a vee of geese hidden doors feeding mallards on a slow day inside the apple core a pocket full of sorry kills the gun steamy windows the spiral of sparrows across our shadows stretching out the sunset in everyone's train window Alan Summers
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mist through the oak wood a broken antler sprouting shadows fading footprints through a stand of tall pines the wind’s low moan John Hawkhead
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before the snowfall branches of a million pines soften the wind nature reserve even here crows black clouds the white in the wave two swans Anna Maris
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origami crane loses its way Eufemia Griffo
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ready for the day before it begins robin song sunny spells spring sneaks a little further up the hillside eclosion … opening myself to you completely David J Kelly
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sardine clouds I feel a bit closer to the sun Pravat Kumar Padhy
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dawn light a Samaritans' billboard above the river care home – his alternate reality onions in the pan everything I've done leads to this David Serjeant
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Hospice Guild Silent Auction one more painting is the last thing we need but still, it’s a good cause, so maybe … “The Rusty Old Fence” the artist is so good I can hear the squeak a lone seagull stays steady in the same spot we drop anchor bowtie pasta, buttered and Chardonnay Neal Whitman
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hot summer: on the bus my world expands seeing the banner for Rahsaan dan smith
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spreading among the green green green green y e l l o w c r o c u s e s Andy McLellan
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morning rain the way everything slows down the viewing . . . she stands next to the exit by herself . . . the kindling catches piece by piece Tina Crenshaw
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deep inside her private thoughts winter cherry parallel furrows channel the overcloud barley harvest trusting the sun will rise tomorrow day lily Marietta McGregor
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meadow finches the pendulum of my soul comes to rest Julie Warther
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Petals in the Punch garden party… the fireflies fashionably late her polka-dot dress sparkles with moon glow petals in the punch... the clink of cut crystal on an easel in front of the bandstand their new Pollock a splattering of syncopated drumbeats with the pop of a champagne cork bubbling starlight Julie Warther & Angela Terry
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young cherries almost summer in the robin's song Grant Savage
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under a migraine of clouds her saffron umbrella pops into bloom – a sudden insight snaps remorse off the page a small village with yellow windows in the gloaming sometimes a little kitsch is just the thing using a stick to help a turtle cross the road – you’ll never tell that critter there aren’t unfathomable forces the brass door pull polished to a purr – when I work I work hard, when I play I play dead
Larry Kimmel
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Safiyyah Patel
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on soft grass I let an ant figure me out ocean its big mouth open suddenly goosebumps on her skin migrating Elmedin Kadric
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through hotel wall the sounds of a shower and singing David Oates
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silence now hearing the ringing in my ears in my own shoes walking this worn path full moon filling the sea before me and behind me Mary White
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Safiyyah Patel
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newborn in the house no one knows what time it is Pat Davis
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dreams the facts of poetry spring rain the smoke from my neighbor's chimney the birds fly through it like it wasn't there sunset Mike Rehling
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summer clouds – sheets billowing on the line the sails of a pirate ship drifting seeds a house with all its windows open rain clouds a house without its roof summer dusk when our mothers would call us home Stephen Toft
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Ola Lindberg
Ola Lindberg's latest haiku book in Swedish 'Månstigar' was released earlier this year, to order a copy simply email [email protected].
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art publication credits
'closing my eyes...' Kris Moon
'a memory' Kris Moon
'In the same vase' Alexis Rotella
'In the peonies' Alexis Rotella
'WHO WAS' Alexis Rotella