December Haiku Share
hawks
catching thermals
slow moving clouds
— Cara Holman
1st place, WD Poetic Form Challenge: Hay(na)ku, Aug. 2011
Writer’s Digest, January 2012
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roads not taken
the shifting shapes
of clouds
— Seánan Forbes
a version of this appeared in Daily Haiku, Cycle 13, Summer 2012
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cold moon
even the owl
has flown
— angie werren
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waiting for the moon . .
a hawk weaves
a handful of clouds
— Sandi Pray
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shirtless
he weeds
between the gravestones
— Kirsten Cliff
Moonset 6:1 2010
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passing clouds
the scent of honeysuckle
in a crow’s wings
— Christine L. Villa
3rd place, Svetlana Marisova Memorial Kukai, September 2012
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eclipse
a mother
bares her breast
— Polona Oblak
A Hundred Gourds 1:3
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a hawk’s wingspan
between wire and sky
teacup moon
—Kathy Uyen Nguyen
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tree-topper
the red-tailed hawk, a lone
winged angel
— Margaret Dornaus
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sun down the wake of a red-tailed hawk
— sanjuktaa
From Things with Wings, edited by Aubrie Cox
You can see the doodle by Aubrie that inspired it here.
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autumn wind …
sparrow riding
my car antenna
— Pamela A. Babusci
Heron Quarterly 1:4 (October 1997)
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hummingbird
dive bombs
her quivering lip
— Jone MacCulloch
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