Friday, November 29, 2019

Another Trip Around the Sun: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old edited by Jessica Malone Latham


 Purchase a copy of this anthology here!

I was so excited to be included in this anthology.  I love children and their books.  I would have been happy to have just one of my haiku appear in this book, but they chose 9!  Yippee!  I hope it will be a legacy for my children and grandchildren.  Most of these haiku were inspired by them.  

From the editor's preface:

    My vision for this collection is for these poems to be read each day throughout the year. Read them with your child or grandchild, gift them to a friend whose children no longer live at home to     spark memories from the past, or spontaneously sift through the book on a cloud-drift day. Spend     time savoring each poem, share memories, or write poems together inspired by that day’s haiku.

                                                                               ~ Jessica Malone Latham  


Below are my haiku that were included:


winter sun

butter melting

on warm pancakes  


unfinished sampler

the small hearts

not yet crossed   


baby's breath

the rocking

of treetops


birdsong

a note slipped

under my door


chrysalis

her first pair

of earrings


faces pressed

against school bus windows

wild sunflowers


grandpa's soft shirt

the open arms

of a scarecrow


small girl

asleep at the airport

her flyaway hair


angels 

just out of reach

feather dusting


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