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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: For an anthology of haiku, senryu, and tanka on the subject of grief, loss and change, entitled: THE TEMPLE BELL STOPS: CONTEMPORARY POEMS
OF GRIEF, LOSS AND CHANGE. Prefer unpublished poems, but published poems okay that include full credits. No current deadline and no reimbursement for accepted poems.
Please send submissions to Robert Epstein: worldofdewhaiku@gmail.com.

pear trees in bloom

freeze warning tonight

broken promises

Terri French
Huntsville, Alabama

beach reading--
the sandcrab's eyes and mine
meet

writing outdoors--
a bug punctuates
my words

the wind
blowing on the child
blowing on the pinwheel

        Rose Marie Stutts
        Tuscaloosa, Alabama

blackberry winter
even the iris
seem to shiver

Ant by ant
the cup cake
disappears

seasons pass
when did Mom's face
appear in my mirror?

      Joette Giorgis
       Port St. Lucie, FL
       www.joettestrings.com

waiting for the storm--
the noisy clatter
of wind chimes

lying in a field--
a flock of birds
in flight

afternoon sun shower--
a rainbow
brightens my sky

Friends of the Southeast

Michael Dylan Welch
Sammamish, Washington

first star--
a seashell held
to my baby's ear

hospital waiting room--
the drinking fountain
stops humming

sleeping toddler--
a bit of the ocean
left in his plastic pail

Stephen Addiss (including the haiga at top of page)
Richmond, Virginia

sulking
in the corner of the guesthouse
the old stove

fifteen seconds of rain—
polka-dots
on the sidewalk

new to the city
but everywhere I look
her face

          Mike Finley
            "robbing from Minneapolis to pay Saint Paul"

Why did the Buddha
sit under the Bo tree?
To get to the other side.

Jim Kacian
     Winchester, Virginia

passing the jug
the warmth
of many hands

the river
the river makes
of the moon

Rick Black (from Peace and War: A Collection of Haiku from Israel)
     Highland Park, New Jersey

      volley of gunshots --
teens keep playing soccer in
     the moslem quarter

      galilee's reflection:
orange trumpet vine flowers
      walking on water

      rainbow's arc
the old city's domed rooftops
      still glistening

HSA membership details are listed at http://www.hsa-haiku.org/join.htm. Membership benefits include Frogpond and the HSA newsletter, plus inclusion in the annual HSA membership anthology, if one chooses to submit. We are also in the process of increasing fees for the contests to $2 a poem for nonmembers, meaning that members will get a half-price discount on contest entries.