slate sky . . .
deleting the dead
from my Christmas list
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Hannah Mahoney
Hannah Mahoney’s debut haiku chapbook, Shifting Light, is available from Backbone Press. She is a featured poet in New Resonance 12 and a recipient of both the Kaji Aso International Haiku Award and the Kaji Aso International Senryu Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Wonderful image. Not happy, but wonderful nonetheless.
Wonderful image. Not happy, but wonderful nonetheless.
I felt something leaden in my chest…
Beautiful!
Wonderfully real haiku.
empathy resonates.
this is excellent, Hannah
peace and love
Wonderful, and one that we can all associate with, Hannah.
The "slate sky" is beautiful, and I too know this feeling.
writing poems for Mom & Dad to keep their names alive
first snow
filling the emptiness
of a curled leaf
This is just lovely. During late autumn, snails seems to 'hide' in leaves that are curling which prompted:
snail in a leaf
double wrapped
against October's chill
absolutely beautiful and painful.