warm breeze
on this moonless night
fireflies
Rebecca Upjohn, Harrisville, New Hampshire
summer meadow . . .
the delicate touch
of baby's breath
Margaret Anderson, Vancouver, BC
on her
own terms…
wild iris
Kim Klugh, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
billowing clouds
a ladybug climbs
the sunflower fence
Violet Avery Hall, Florida, USA
camping trip
a hint of twilight
between the branches
Rowan Beckett Minor, USA
jasmine breeze
wafting
butterfly koi
Jeral Williams, Mobile AL
distant thunder—
a flick of eagle wings
into the mist
Hifsa Ashraf, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
a red canoe
slices the sunset
Mirror Lake
Ruth Holzer, Potomac Falls, VA
my mother
when angry
wild iris
Laurnda Lind, Sackets Harbor, NY, USA
clear water
a cloud drifts
among the trout
morning glory
the zigzag cacophony
of a kingfisher
Goran Gatalica, Zagreb, Croatia
suncatcher Sunday–
the slow melt
of ice cream
Elliot Diamond, United States
Michele’s Musings
Dear friends,
This is not about haiku. I apologize in advance.
Sally, Frithjof and I are involved with a nonprofit in Bangladesh called the Glory Future Foundation. They do great work with homeless children, including teaching English, helping people plant trees and grow food, building little free libraries and more.
This isn’t about that either.
The foundation was started by a young man named Sayd. He wanted to do something after his father, a real humanitarian, passed away about seven years ago. Sayd is also a poet!
Now I’m getting to the heart of my message.
Sayd’s beloved grandmother, who was very involved in his upbringing, has seen a terrible decline in her health. Last week her family was told she would need a pacemaker to live. That’s a cost of $4000 Canadian dollars – a small fortune in Bangladesh.
We and other friends of Sayd and the Foundation managed to raise $3500. Then another friend, who lives on a disability pension, made a loan of the last $500 so that the surgery could go ahead. On Thursday, the grandmother had a successful surgery and the pacemaker is working well. Thank goodness!
We still need to raise some money to pay back the loan. This is where you come in. If you have been thinking about buying Sally and I a coffee, now is the time to do it! All the coffee money that comes in over the next two weeks will go towards paying off the loan.
I want to thank you for your understanding and your consideration of this request to help the family of a young man that means so much to the three of us!
Keep on writing!
Member News
Thanks to all who shared their news with us!
We congratulate you.
From Bruce H. Feingold
Dear Haiku Friends,
I am excited to share that, "a boy who lived one day," was just released by Red Moon Press. My sixth collection was inspired by a confluence of personal, family, social,and political experiences, and I believe you will discover many moving poems and a textured, layered and rich narrative with an intriguing range of haiku styles.
I would like to share a comment from the Acknowledgements which I hope captures the essence of the collection:
"I am more aware than ever of the fundamental value of one's unique haiku voice and authenticity and becoming who you are as a poet and human being. After decades, the practice of composing has become a truly amazing, mysteriou, grounding and joyful way of being."
If you’d like to purchase a copy, please email me at drbrucefeingold@gmail.com, and I will provide billing information (check or PayPal). The cost is $22 forUnited States ((mailing included and will adjust for overseas mailing to make it feasible ).
Thank you for your past support and I am eager to share my haiku journey with you.
Warm regards,
Bruce
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Hi Sally,
I loved sharing the same page in Haiku Girl Summer with you this week. I love the bitter rind haiku.
Would you please share that I have a haiku on that same page: https://www.haikugirlsummer.com/hot-sauce/ ?
Also, I have a haiku in the 2026 One Art Haiku Anthology:
https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/17/one-arts-2026-haiku-anth... (search for Carla Schwartz)
Thank you so much, Carla Schwartz
PS
I also have three haibun out in MacQueen's Quinterly this most recent issue (32)
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In the category of Member News, coming into and during spring 2026, these places published haiku I had written before I was sick: Adirondack Center for Writing, Asahi Haikuist Network, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, cattails, Chrysanthemum, The Cicada’s Cry, 5-7-5 Haiku, Haikuniverse, and The Zen Space.
Laurnda Lind, Sackets Harbor, NY, USA
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I’ve been published in the beautiful first issue of Cornflower Magazine and been accepted for the first issue of Sun Dog Journal.
Joanna Ashwell, UK
Way to go! You are indeed a talented bunch.
Sally's Notebook
How To Be Alone
It was hard, the first time – so used to having others around. My instincts, or rather, my fears, screamed at me to call someone, anyone. Squashing the urge, I moved from the safety of the parking lot to the forest trail. I had gone the wrong way. The waterfalls were in the opposite direction, and I saw no one.
But I saw a feather. I saw a pine cone, a rock, a flower. Time and space enough, I felt the breeze on my face, heard the cacophony of bird song and river rush. I stood before a tree, imagined what it would be like to be stalwart and strong, to have roots, centuries old.
It was in that moment I realized I did have roots, roots that connected me to the tree, the leaves, the hummingbird nesting within. The same life force propelling me forward existed in all things, glowing, pulsating. I lost myself in the woods that day, and at the same time, I found myself.
red squirrel -
the secret path
of the heart
Just For Fun
Haiku Girl Summer is now accepting submissions! This year, in addition to the haiku/senryu submissions, there will be a special haiga week. Haiga submissions are due by July 19th. Final submissions for haiku/senryu is August 15th.
The Haiku Society of America has a number of competitions open until June 30th, including haiku senryu, and haibun. All the details are available on their website.
The International EJCA Spring Haiku Contest is open until June 20th. There are a number of categories to enter under. Remember, the overall theme is spring and you should use a spring season word.
The Triveni Haiku Awards, out of India, are open for submissions from June 10th to June 30th. This annual competition welcomes submissions from international writers. This year’s judges are Billie Dee and Vandana Parashar.
The Haiku Shack Anthology is a new series curated and edited by Cendrine Marrouat and Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky. Each volume will contain a maximum of 50 haiku selected from contributors living around the world. Submissions for the upcoming issue must be in by September 30th
Kokako, a Japanese short-form journal out of New Zealand, is accepting submissions until July 1st. You can read the interesting story of the journal’s name on their about page.
Tsuri-dōrō will open for submissions for their Fall issue from July 1st to 10th. They are looking for both haiku and haiga. Please read the submission guidelines carefully.
Haikuniverse is accepting haiku on a rolling basis. Only one haiku per submission please.
This Week’s Prompt
Download your copy of the calendar!
Send us one or two haiku based on the month of summer prompts or any other summer seasonal references. Deadline for submissions is June 28th.
Send one or two haiku to sally_quon@yahoo.com or to Michele at kelownalady@hotmail.com. Find our full submission info here. Don’t forget to tell us where you are writing from!
"A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature."
― R. H. Blyth
Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele is published in the Asahi Shimbun Haikuist, Pine Cone Review, the Enchanted Garden, Five Minute Lit, Shadow Pond, WordCityLit, and the anthologies F*ck the Patriarchy, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and To Live Here, among others. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and Haiku Canada. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.
Sally Quon is a disabled poet and photographer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets and a member of Haiku Canada. Her work has been published in numerous journals including The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, First Frost, and Time Haiku. She is currently working on her first book of haiku, haibun, and haiga, tentatively titled, “My Valley, My Home.”
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