Meredith Ackroyd lives in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with her husband and two children. She is a graduate of the MFA program in children's literature at Hollins University, where she studied the writing of poetry for children. Her poetry has been published in Modern Haiku,Frogpond,The Heron's Nest, and tinywords, among other publications. In 2021, she won a Touchstone Individual Poems Award from The Haiku Foundation.
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Beautiful haiku. Wonderful use of the senses and sabi <3
Beautiful haiku. Wonderful use of the senses and sabi <3
I love how 'rings' creates a visual image and a sense of sound. Lovely unifying rhyme between rings/spring too.
eye and ear
time each rain drop
nature rhythm
__Counting letters.
__We see, then hear… each drop on crystal; so nicely sensed, Meredith_! _m
Thank you so much for all of your kind and thoughtful comments on this poem!