children’s voices –
the daisies in the vase
unwilt
Published by
Jennifer Hambrick
A four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Jennifer Hambrick won the 2020 Sheila-Na-Gig Pres Poetry Prize, won First Place in the 2018 Haiku Society of America's Haibun Award Competition, won First Place in the 2021 Martin Lucas Haiku Competition, and authored the collections In the High Weeds, winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). She has won numerous other awards for her work, which has been published in The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, POEM, the Red Moon Press haiku and contemporary haibun anthologies, Modern Haiku Press’ Haiku 20xx anthologies of “Notable Ku,” Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in dozens of other journals and invited anthologies worldwide. A classical musician and public radio broadcaster and multimedia producer, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus.
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Love the ‘unwilt’ imagery!
loves me
loves me not
shredded daisies
Thank you, Mike. And I love your haiku … I can just see a pile of dismembered daisies (poor things).
What a lovely image and beautiful sensory language—I can see and hear it.
Thank you so much, Bethany!
Wheter it's morning or evening children love to play together
Since a long time the daisies were in the vase
As of now it's time to replace the daisies from the vase.
Whether the daisies were in the vase since last evening or they were placed in the vase in morning is an altogether different question.
As of now the children are ready to go to play.
Time flies.