Sunday, 10 March 2024

Ten Haiku Poems by Joshua St. Claire

 



Ten Haiku


sternbergia lutea entering my Gold Phase


 

stratocumulus radiatus
two mourning doves floating
on a wire


 

sunbeams slanting through sassafras leaves pipsissewa


 

a red dawn
stains the dogwood blossoms
chipping sparrows


 

it won’t be long now morning glory


 

a monarch slips
into an unknown meadow
childhood deepens


 

measuring out
my square of sky
grape arbor

 

 

an ant treks
to the edge of the world
peony bud


 

a steady rain fills the cracks it makes broken bashō leaves

 



robinsong
rippling the hemlocks
Appalachian lake



 

Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a large non-profit. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Lana Turner, Sugar House Review, Two Thirds North, Allium, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal, among others. His work has appeared in the Dwarf Stars Anthology and he is the winner of the Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Award and the Trailblazer Award.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Three Poems by John Patrick Robbins

  You're Just Old So you cling to anything that doesn't remind you of the truth of a chapter's close or setting sun. The comfort...