Ten Haiku Poems by Adele Evershed

 

Ten Haiku

spring showers...

I borrow peace

from the raindrops

moving home

the daffodils the same

but different

ice flower

the girl on my class register

no longer here

wild rosemary

dad asks who is in the photo

in his wallet

death moon

they strip the old man

down to his tattoo

red tide

the sound of water

silenced

lilac wine

I find mum's lipstick shade

discontinued

plum blossoms

too many questions

with no answers...

black ice

mum picks red stilettos

to wear at her funeral

bamboo curtain

a boy plays peek-a-boo

with the sun

Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who now lives in America. Her poems and flash fictions have appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Anti Heroin Chic, Gyroscope, Janus Lit, and many other places. Adele has been nominated for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize for poetry and short fiction. She has published two poetry chapbooks, Turbulence in Small Places (Finishing Line Press) and The Brink of Silence is available (Bottlecap Press). Adele has published a novella-in-flash, Wannabe (Alien Buddha Press) and a short story collection Suffer/Rage (Dark Myth Publisher). Find her on X @AdLibby1 and Threads/Instagram @ad_libby