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Author: Melissa Spurr

Melissa enjoys reading, writing, photography, losing herself in the wild, and working with power tools. Her poems have been published in an assortment of fine haiku journals, and she is a featured poet in the Red Moon Press publication, A New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku.

a jarful of coins
from faraway places
winter stars

Posted on 18 March 201115 March 2011Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 11.1Tags haiku, night, winter11 Comments on

night sky
the rusted tin roof
leaking moonlight

Posted on 23 February 201118 February 2011Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 11.1Tags haiku, light, moon6 Comments on

late autumn walk
the many paths
I could have taken

Posted on 30 December 200930 December 2009Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 09.1Tags autumn, haiku9 Comments on


autumn sunlight
the old dog unearths
her favorite toy

Posted on 21 December 200922 December 2009Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 09.1Tags autumn, haiga, haiku, photograph6 Comments on

childless couple
a birthday cake
for the dog

Posted on 28 May 20081 October 2025Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 089 Comments on

desert snowfall-
the saguaro’s
white shoulders

Posted on 6 March 20081 October 2025Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 0813 Comments on

bare maple branches
grandpa’s fingers curl
around his cane

Posted on 1 January 20081 October 2025Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 08Leave a comment on
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