creek song
a rainbow thrashing
against sky
sculling the undercurrent
of conversation
(Tan renga written by Billie Dee and Lorraine Padden)
Author: 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.
half-open roses
the soloist’s bouquet
allegro non troppo
seventh heaven
a lotus breaks
the surface
foster care interview
a fledgling catches
an updraft
first-born flowers*
In the place where we scattered her ashes last summer, there’s now a tiny crown of purple shoots adorning the snow.
early March
just enough
headstone inscription
the vocabulary
beyond her years
shuttered monastery
the keening
of bell crickets
seventh summer
we measure his height
in sunflowers
higher tides
crabs scuttling
on asphalt