year of the dragon
some fire still remains
in my belly
(Originally published on Zen Peacemakers Featured Haiku Page, January 2024)
Author: Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and enjoys writing poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including: Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Atlas Poetica, Frogpond, Heron's Nest, Mslexia, The Binnacle, The Right-Eyed Deer, and In Protest: 150 Poems on Human Rights.
seismic shift
a world a war
within and without
(last one previously published in Femku Mag, Issue 33,
falling leaves
a chorus of chainsaws
in the mockingbird’s song
(Originally published on Nick Virgilio Haiku Association’s
plague year
another wave
from the President
making sandcastles
my son fills the moat
from his bladder
(Runner-up in Haiku Calendar Competition, 2015)
long drought
our prayers for rain
go unanswered
the one cloud on the horizon
mushroom-shaped and growing
an echo
of happier times
her voice on the mixed tape