Bill Waters ~~ Haiku

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Hopewell Valley Neighbors magazine: June ’23

The text (which is rather small):

riverside wedding --
the flower girl
picks a dandelion

periwinkle butterflies
carving the heavy perfume
of honeysuckle

late afternoon . . .
in and out of the sunlight
the cat's tail

Bill Waters lives in Pennington and is a published writer of short poetry and compressed prose. In addition, he runs the Poetry in Public Places Project on Facebook. He can be reached at billwaters.wordsmith@gmail.com and on Instagram @billwaterspoet.

Published in Hopewell Valley Neighbors, June 2023 issue.

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Seedling

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How simple this moment

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Hopewell Valley Neighbors magazine: May ’23

The text (which is rather small):

cracked blacktop
maple seedling
sprouting

little kids
playing soccer
the goalie picks a flower

saffron smudges
in the evening sky . . .
birdsong


Bill Waters lives in Pennington and is a published writer of short poetry and compressed prose. In addition, he runs the Poetry in Public Places Project on Facebook. He can be reached at billwaters.wordsmith@gmail.com and on Instagram @billwaterspoet.

Published in Hopewell Valley Neighbors, May 2023 issue.

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Fly on the window

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Hopewell Valley Neighbors magazine: April ’23

spring fog
weathered snow fence
sagging in a field

birds on a phone line
some this way
some that way

floating by:
milkweed seeds
and one white butterfly

Published in Hopewell Valley Neighbors, April 2023 issue.

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Mother crow

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New Jersey Botanical Garden haiku installation 2023

Anyone visiting the New Jersey Botanical Garden in April will see signs of spring — and signs with spring poems on them, too! :- )

A poem of mine is on one of them:

junipers
and the scent
of junipers

About the New Jersey Botanical Garden: https://njbg.org

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Heavy clouds

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Spring training

spring training —

from third base to home plate

the Canada goose

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