seventh summer
we measure his height
in sunflowers

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Lorraine A Padden

Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone Award winning poet and former professional ballet dancer whose career and scholarship in the performing and visual arts earned her an appointment to the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry has been honored by The Haiku Foundation, Tricycle Magazine, Haiku Society of America, Tokutomi International Haiku Competition, and the British Haiku Society, among others. Lorraine is a featured poet in A New Resonance 13, the renowned anthology showcasing emerging voices in English-language haiku. Upwelling, her critically acclaimed collection of haiku and related short forms was published in 2022.

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  1. What a lovely haiku! Karen and myself, our then pre-teen nephew, and his parents came across a sunflower field, a really big one, and you could pay to enter. We have lots of photos of our nephew up against various sunflowers!

    warmest regards,
    Alan

  2. I love this. I'm sharing it with a friend who has a son who is in kindergarten and grew his own sunflowers this summer. <3

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