One Breath Poetry #3

summer night
the long twinkle
of citronella flames
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kingfisher
if only your blue
filled the sky

                    ​Joanna Ashwell


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size matters not
the swagger of
a willy wagtail

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maternity ward
from the rooftop a blackbird’s 
morning song

                    Katja Fox


            ***


All Hallows’ Eve
I lay my demons
to rest

​                     Maartje Gorte


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twilight walk
cold water falling
into our bones


may tide
drifting away
the sound of nothing

                    Gareth Nurden


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stormy night 
rewilding
the neighbour's dog


rush hour tube
only the baby
makes eye contact 

                    Ben Oliver


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yellow warbler
how long have I been 
a note of his song? 

                    M.R. Pelletier


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if I
were an antler
in spring
I would shed myself
and begin again

                    Pippa Phillips


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coffee break
the daymoon rests
on a cloud 

                    Valentina Ranaldi-Adams


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beach stroll
looking for the cat 
again


contrails
from that side to this side
gaza strip


autumn deepens. . . 
the sharp curve 
of the hospital corridor

                    Neha Singh Soni
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JOANNA ASHWELL is a short-form poetry writer from the UK who is widely published in both print and online journals.  She has won awards for her poetry and has been on the Touchstone Shortlist for her haiku in 2020 and on the longlist for her haibun in 2025.

KATJA FOX is a British artist and poet. She loves writing short-form poetry, many of which have appeared in leading journals and anthologies across the world and also in her two poetry books “out of nowhere “ and “there was a moment.”

A copywriter by day and a poet by night, MAARTJE GORTE writes haiku to stop overthinking and other verse to start it again. She lives in the Netherlands with her husband, three children and the ghosts of many cats.

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.

BEN OLIVER grew up on (and in) the River Thames, where he developed a deep affinity with nature. Having studied Biology, he works at Westonbirt National Arboretum, helping people engage with the majesty of trees. 

M.R. PELLETIER lives in Kansas, but his haiku poetry travels the world. He has published in multiple journals including Creatrix, Cold Moon Journal, Presence, and Wales Haiku Journal among others. 

PIPPA PHILLIPS, co-editor of Prune Juice Journal of Senryu, is an educator living in North Carolina. She writes long things and short things. Her work had appeared in The Heron's Nest, Frog Pond, Modern Haiku, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, The Drabble, and Galaxy Magazine.

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.

NEHA SINGH SONI is a Chartered Accountant from India, with a deep love for poetry, especially haiku. She primarily focuses on love poems and nature-inspired verses. Her work has been published in renowned online magazines.

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