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March 2026 – Haiku About Oceans
Ocean themed haiku curated by Marietta McGregor.
just being the ocean breeze
– Bruce H. Feingold
beach stroll
the tide has left
its signatures
– Tom Clausen
jutting rocks
the boom of a breaker
toppling upwards
– Jan Dobb
surging waves…
the taste
of her tan lines
– Chad Lee Robinson
at low tide
slipping on rocks
summer sea
– Victor Ortiz
tropical night surf
each crash and hiss
phosphoresces
– Ruth Yarrow
skinny dipping
the graze of her nipples
under water
– Adjei Agyei-Baah
summer rockpool
and all of me —
midday sun
– Patricia Prime
midday sun
the slap of waves
under the pier
– Marion Clarke
after our vacation
unpacking stones
from the ocean
– Marco Fraticelli
fading light
the neap tide
slips between our toes
– John Hawkhead
autumn sea
a little girl’s love
of small brown shells
– Peggy Willis Lyles
Feburary 2026 – Haiku About Love
Haiku on the theme of love curated by Raghav Prashant Sundar
first date
speaking at the same time
for the third time
– Ram Chandran
hall of mirrors
what I think you think
of me
– Bill Kenney
from Bach to Bartok a delicate dance
– Norma Bradley
first kiss
marram grass stubbles
the dunes
– Susan Richardson
out of love we fake a November moon
– Laurence Stacey
love making moonlight of it
– John Hawkhead
hawk moth
finding its way
inside fire
– Evangelos Roussos
this long night’s ambition after the milk spills our closeness
– Richa Sharma
afterglow
your hand still
in mine
– Vidhi Ashar
meteors showering outside I rinse stars from her hair
– Christopher Peys
crowded bistro
only the bartender
knows I exist
– William Scott Galasso
life in a metro
I practice self-love
on Valentine’s Day
– Ganesh R
blue note the adjectives I use for you
– Surashree Joshi
quarter moon the size of the word love
– Adrian Bouter
pul ling aw ay it s par tly yo ur fau lt li ne
– Peter Jastermsky
in the foreground of decadence
please may I listen to your belly
– Mark Gilbert
lovecode the ultrasound of your photons
– Richard Gilbert
young impalas
all outrunning
the son I never had
– Lysa Collins
church bells
my daughter’s laugh
becomes religion
– Shane Coppage
unfilial
mother’s shoes
don’t fit
– Luminita Suse
wedding anniversary
gold larches
in the rain
– Richard Tice
Eurasian beavers
you arrange my pills
in the box
– Vidya Premkumar
still in your arms
almost forty years later
sleeper train
– Marion Clarke
snowdrops the moment I know how to love
– Isabella Kramer
outlasting
everyone she loved —
heartwood
– Roland Packer
terraforming
we begin again
as friends
– Bryan Rickert
January 2026 – Haiku About Compassion
Haiku on Compassion curated by Deborah A. Bennett
bone moon
love enough
in the marrow
– Lee Gurga
snowdrops
a deported man
comes home
– Alvin B. Cruz
Holi…
no one a stranger
at my doorstep
– Pravat Kumar Padhy
neighbor’s tomatoes
the comfort
of small favors
– Colette Kern
church picnic
an ant brings another
to the melon
– Dan Schwerin
state fair
sharing a corn dog
with a dunked clown
– Dan Burt
Juneteenth
the library closed to everyone
equally
– Mykel Board
planting rice
an old woman’s song
tinged with sorrow
– Neena Singh
wind through corn
a place for songs
no one sings
– Glenn G. Coats
hurricane prep
the stray cat sneaks her babies
into our garage
– Pris Campbell
passwords
the family pet
lives on
– Marianne Paul
bullied girl
in her shirt pocket
an origami swan
– Tom Bierovic
tank barrels
Banksy plants
a bigger daisy
– Alan Summers
harvest moon
far from the war zone
children’s laughter
– Fatma Zohra Habis
home from war
the first thing to go
is the forsythia
– Elmedin Kadric
my old friend…
a gold koi wandering
through clouds
– Jacob D. Salzer
wild indigos
poems on the same page
shine together
– Lakshman Bulusu
moonbase garden
the lettuce
learns my name
– Nalini Shetty
a handful of falling stars
the walk
in mother’s shoes
– Elisa Theriana
all these broken pieces have names
– Anne Fox
our seasonal emptiness fills with rain
– Roberta Beach Jacobson
balcony full of stars
our conversation
about illness
– Maria Concetta Conti
stage four the sunshine the rain
– Arvinder Kaur
nursing home forced forsythia
– Ruth Yarrow
a family’s worth deadheading roses
– Rowan Beckett Minor
stepping on my shadow bereavement handshakes
– Maya Daneva
veteran’s graveyard
one line after another
on her face
– Richard L. Matta
taking the wild
from the flowers
first frost
– Bryan Rickert
foreclosure
the corn rows
covered in snow
– Marilyn Ashbaugh
under the bridge
a circle of strangers
passing the stew
– Sandip Chauhan
in the heart
that mountain bluebird
still waiting
– Biswajit Mishra