Five Haiku about Tranquility by Barbara Harris Leonhard

 

Image / Nastasya Banana

Five Haiku about Tranquility

blooming crocus, cooing doves

solitude cools rain

humming bees, poetic breeze

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lake grass prickles the hot sand

warm toes tickle waves

hollow reeds whistle my breath

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garden bounties the sun, I’m

on a hungry quest

with a doe and a mud turtle

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the riparian forest

weeping willow sighs 

a song to the old river

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night breeze opens the window

hooting lone barred owl 

awakens my twilight dreams 

(First appeared in Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku)

© Barbara Harris Leonhard

Barbara Harris Leonhard

Barbara Harris Leonhard is the author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (2022) and The Lost Book of Zeroth (2025). She is co-author of Too Much Fun to Be Legal (2024) and Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry (2025). She’s a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Trending Poets named her Poet of the Year in 2023 and 2024. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Albanian, and Chinese. She is the Editor for MasticadoresUSA and FEED THE HOLY. And Co-Bookshelf Editor on LatinosUSA. Her blog: Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver. 

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