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FEATURED POEM
the year’s last poem
our childhood front door
wide open
Vanessa Proctor
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Australian Haiku Society 
heat lightning—
Christmas beetles
spangle the fly screen
– Lorin Ford, The Heron’s Nest Vol. XIII, No. 1 (March 2011)
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our measure
of summer days
inchworm
The Mainichi, Haiku in English, 2015
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midnight moon
trapped in the dream catcher
summer heat
Asahi Haikuist Network, September 2015, midsummer issue
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gazing
at the Southern Cross
woodheat warms my back
Alan Summers
sundog, an australian year, sunfast press (1997 reprinted 1998)
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night wind –
the candle’s flame
lengthens
Pasquale Asprea – Italy
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time by the river
another summer
trickles by
Simon Hanson
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A very fine haiku, Simon – wistful; quietly evocative; with the season’s passing beautifully mirrored by the flow of the stream.
Best wishes, Rodney
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school car park
. . . the sun beats
only the bitumen
Julie Thorndyke
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trumpet lily
more baroque
than jazz
Jennifer Sutherland
first published The Herons Nest Dec 2014
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her death –
sealed Christmas cards
in the mailbox
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
USA
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Christmas
Hanukkah candles’
flickering lights
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light
a bee finds nectar
in far away places
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community
a foot in Christmas
another in Hanukkah
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