Haiku Journal Haikus

 

Featured in Issue 21

 

    An autumn bruised black

    leaves swept under the roadside

    for winter to bloom

 

Featured in Issue 22

 

    A window held closed

    wind rattled against its skin

    the cold pane quivers

 

Featured in Issue 23

 

   Guardians wrap me

    in feathers and pine. Lift me

    until I am sky.

 

    morning flushed bright pink

    mountain jaws rising to greet

    the clouds just waking

 

Featured in Issue 24

 

    the last clinging leaves

    shivering upon ancient

    black creaking branches.

 

Featured in Issue 25

 

    Good mother. The sun

    wearing leaves of white starlight.

    Darkness bowing low.