One Breath Poetry #2

dropping into
the beggar’s hat–
spring rain


​park bench– 
an old man’s small talk
with pigeons

                    Martina Matijević ​

rising light
every song
a shade of orange

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hollow sky
a hint of sandalwood
in dad's aftershave

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from one tree
to another
the call of daylight

                    Gareth Nurden

Venus suspended, a low-slung crescent moon ready to catch her

​                                                                                            Clodagh O Connor

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spring rhythms
the woodpecker performs
a drum solo 
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seventeen years
in the making . . .
cicada serenade 

                  Valentina Ranaldi-Adams

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wind chimes
I'm just a name
in the breeze


spring meadows
a sheep circles back
to the same spot

                    Bhawana Rathore 

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​one petal
all the difference
to a daisy

                    Julie Schwerin

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MARTINA MATIJEVIĆ is a writer from Croatia. ​

GARETH NURDEN has had pieces of haiku, senryu and haiga published in nineteen countries worldwide and has had several pieces nominated for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for individual poem in 2024 and 2025.

CLODAGH O CONNOR lives in Dublin, Ireland, and is working on becoming a writer. She particularly enjoys the challenges of tiny fiction and haiku. 

​VALENTINA RANALDI-ADAMS is an internationally published poet specializing in haiku, senryu, and haiga.  She won a 2024 Art of Haiku Gold prize among others. Valentina's haiga have been exhibited at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum and on the Haiku Foundation's website.

BHAWANA RATHORE is a student from India, interested in literature and human sciences. She dedicates her poetry to her late grandparents. Her work has been published widely in haiku journals and anthologies as well as nominated for Touchstone Award. Nature and poetry is her solace.

JULIE SCHWERIN (she/her) is an associate editor at The Heron's Nest and member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team. Her first full-length collection of haiku, fencing with the moon, is available through Finishing Line Press.

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