January 2023
Bio Note: For me, the New Year can be a time of transition, from letting go and closing chapters, to moving on and embracing new possibilities. In this year’s international Golden Triangle Haiku Contest, the theme was “Reboot and Rebloom,” and one of my haiku received recognition and a placard in Washington, D.C. Another haiku was recently nominated for a 2022 Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. Sundae Sundays, my forthcoming children’s book, was inspired by an event during my son’s month-of-December time in NICU, following which he “rebooted” in the new year and has continued to bloom during the past 21 years.
Three Haiku
hospice book cart bookmarks between the pages
Originally published in The Heron’s Nest, Volume XXIV, Number 4, 2022
crescent moon craters in the dark
Originally published in Golden Triangle Haiku Contest recognition placard in Washington, D.C., 2022
baby’s first steps a mother’s breath on tiptoe
Originally published in Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2022
©2023 Kelly Sargent
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