Modern Haiku

back and forth
between concrete barriers
the box turtle

Patricia A. Laster
Modern Haiku 32.3 (2001)

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fireflies plenty of light to see her by

Edward Tick
Modern Haiku 16.1 (1985)

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five generations
of plowing—still they turn up:
these flint arrowheads

Evelyn Tooley Hunt
Modern Haiku 10.2 (1979)

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oil swirls
in a sand castle moat
screeching gulls

Joe McKeon
2016 Robert Spiess Contest - Second Place

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stopping
to s t r e t c h
bend in the stream

Robin White
Modern Haiku 53.3 (2022)

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train tunnel —
sliding a bookmark
between pages of a mystery

Alan Bridges
2022 Robert Spiess Contest - First Place

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chicory blossoms
none of the paint chips
quite right

Mary Ann Conley
Modern Haiku 55.2 (2024)

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father’s day —
an airplane flies us over
the fault line

Michael Meyerhofer
Modern Haiku 42.1 (2011)

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peony buds —
an organist practicing
for the wake

Winifred Morgan
Modern Haiku 53.3 (2022)

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NEW FROM MODERN HAIKU PRESS: HAIKU 2026!

The latest annual from editors Scott Metz & Lee Gurga. 100 notable haiku from 2025 selected by the editors of the award-winning Haiku 21.

"Astronauts and poets are pilgrims on paths of exploration. Haiku 2026 is an invitation to journey among some of the most interestingly conceived, deeply informed, and skillfully voiced contemporary haiku published in English in 2025. Poems across a spectrum of styles, themes, and subject matter traverse whole galaxies of mind and heart." — Jennifer Hambrick, from the Afterword

Ordering information available at:

https://modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2026.html