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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 1d

crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 2d

evening snow
caught in the barbed wire fence
one blue feather

- Deborah A. Bennett
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association,
June 2021

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 3d

fresh spring breeze
picking dandelions
from the child's teeth

- Deborah A. Bennett
Shadowpond Journal, Issue IV

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 7d

canto by canto
last faint cricket
in the bamboo grove

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Cicada's Cry, Autumn 2024

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 10d

festival of dolls
child on the back porch
braiding the kitchen mops

- Deborah A. Bennett
Fresh Out Magazine, July 2025

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 11d

before the wound
becomes a word
say "flower"

take your heart
to the light on the roof
say "moon"

- Deborah A. Bennett
Lothlorien Poetry Journal, April 2023

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 12d

the army hat smells
less and less like my brother
summer night

- Deborah A. Bennett
Poetry Pea Journal, September 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 13d

sing out skylark
it's your world too
crescent moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Puddock, Journal of the Scottish
Haiku Society, May 2024

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 15d

new year's dawn
and everyone's birthday
wild chrysanthemums

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Haiku Foundation,
Haiku Dialogue, January 2025

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 16d

summer
lingers
one peony

- Deborah A. Bennett
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 17d

wildfire ash
the shopkeeper adjusts
her flowered mask

- Deborah A. Bennett
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2024

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 20d

as one of us
flower of the sala tree
withering

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Wise Owl Daily Verse,
November 2024

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 22d

not
dying
yet
pierced
through
saguaro
moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line
Poem, Issue 7

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 24d

choosing a melon
outside the bodega
yellow butterfly

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Heron's Nest, Vol. XXVI No.2

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 27d

falling through
the broken window
autumn moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association,
October 2024

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 28d

out of these clouds
a blossom that has no name
first autumn rain

- Deborah A. Bennett
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal,
Fall/Winter 2023

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 29d

the thing that falls away
is myself
spring moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Plum Tree Tavern,
The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 29d

white moth
over the green grave stone
spring moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Plum Tree Tavern,
The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 29d

forgetting the world
is only a drop of dew
spring moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Plum Tree Tavern,
The Spring Moon Poems, May 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 8

all day rain
i add more flour
to the kneaded dough

- Deborah A. Bennett
Amethyst Review, September 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 8

as if all
were right with the world
magnolia blooms

- Deborah A. Bennett
Amethyst Review, September 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 7

the road also bends
within me
autumn evening

- Deborah A. Bennett
Modern Haiku, Issue 53:2

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 6

something of me
in the memory of a fawn
gone into the woods

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Haiku Foundation,
Haiku Dialogue, November 2022

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 6

to have died
and come back again
cherry blossoms

- Deborah A. Bennett
Rattle Magazine, Issue 71

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

how to explain a gun
to the small child singing
to the plum trees at dawn

- Deborah A. Bennett
Frogpond Journal 47:1

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