Saturday 8 April 2023

Ten Haiku Poems by Joshua St. Claire




 

Ten Haiku Poems



one cloud blocks the sun
and they all go grey
funeral service



false thaw melting into my teacup



high-tension lines
hidden below its reflection
the stem of a waterlily




yellow violets
once again mother tells me
some things never get better



sinistral snail
you wouldn’t know
to look at me



lily of the Nile
a child’s hand
gives me the sky



beginning and ending
at the crest of a ditch
daylilies



Cocalico Creek
reaching its banks
fractus clouds



the west wind
shakes the white tulips
meringue



briar rose
the goats devour
spring stars

 



Joshua St. Claire (Michael Winter) is an accountant who works as a financial executive for a large non-profit rural Pennsylvania, USA. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Allium, Lotus-eater, Burningword Literary Journal, Delmarva Review, and Ghost City Review, among others. He is Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Award and Best of the Net nominee. His work has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and he is the winner of the 2022 Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award.

 


No comments:

Post a Comment

Five Poems by Ken Gosse

  Oddities and Endities, Five Poems about Poetry   The Day The Sky Laughed (a circular senryu)   Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird...