Modern Haiku

05/28/2026

opening flower …
so many visitors today
to be fed

Deborah Karl-Brandt
Modern Haiku 54.2 (2023)

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05/21/2026

North Beach
hanging at Caffe Trieste
beat cops

Nathanael Tico
Modern Haiku 55.3 (2024)

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05/14/2026

swift kiss
at the bus stop —
day moon

Ludmila Balabanova
Modern Haiku 45.3 (2014)

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05/07/2026

spring evening —
wind touching her hair
before I do

Brent Olson
Modern Haiku 35.1 (2004)

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04/30/2026

distant church bells
the muddy knees
of pastured cows

Michele L. Harvey
Modern Haiku 45.1 (2014)

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04/23/2026

alone
on the counter
the duplicate key

Jeffrey Ferrara
Modern Haiku 48.3 (2017)

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04/17/2026

Congratulations to all the Touchstone Award winners, in particular Farah Ali (haibun) and Peter Newton (haiku), both published in our pages. And our own Roberta Beary for her book’s Honorable Mention.

Details here:

https://thehaikufoundation.org/2025-touchstone-awards-for-individual-haibun-awarded-haibun-2/

https://thehaikufoundation.org/2025-touchstone-awards-for-individual-poems-awarded/

The best of the best poems published in 2025

04/16/2026

spring honeymoon
not enough words
for green

Agnes Eva Savich
Haiku 21.2 (2025)

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04/09/2026

In an 1979 interview with Raymond Roseliep, Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg asked him how a priest could write such evocative, sometimes erotic, love poetry. That question is examined in Randy Brooks’ essay “The Love Haiku of Raymond Roseliep,” published in Modern Haiku 40.3 (2009). And available on our website: https://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/BrooksRoseliepLoveHaiku.html

heart locket
its rise
and fall

Raymond Roseliep

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In the essay “A Spiritual Quest Through the Haiku of Raymond Roseliep” [2] I explored the spiritual basis of Raymond Roseliep’s haiku poetics. To summarize, Roseliep asserted that

04/02/2026

always there the music in the piano

Shloka Shankar
Modern Haiku 55.3 (2024)

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03/26/2026

I am also
planting a seed
the song of a blackbird

Shawn Blair
Modern Haiku 57.1 (2026)

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