bubbles
scattering
children
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James Schlett
James Schlett is an award-winning author, poet and journalist. He is the author of A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers? Camp in the Adirondacks (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015), winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing?s Adirondack Literary Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction in 2015. His prose have been published in Songs of Innocence, New York Archives and the Mid-Atlantic Almanack, and his poetry (mostly haiku) has been published in Nomad?s Choir, The Literary Gazette, Modern Haiku, The Heron?s Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, tinywords, Wild Plum, Akitsu Quarterly and Bottle Rockets.
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Nice!
The play,
The player
Both are fragile
The connection
Is strong
I would place this tender, energetic, highly visual summer-themed haiku with Issa's great spring haiku:
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children
Jim Ellis/Auburn, NY
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Lovely!
It's always fun when we see youngsters captivated by something so simple!
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busy traffic–
a girl's spins in bubbles
she's made by the road
Alan Summers
Spring Haiku Seasonal Blog (2006)
A directly observed incident. I could never quite capture the unexpectedness of this event though.