
summer’s seed complete
good food? carved face? fall decor?
possibilities
possibilities by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley, from the garden
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summer’s seed complete
good food? carved face? fall decor?
possibilities
possibilities by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley, from the garden
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orange beckons me
summer patience rewarded
autumn sun peeking
autumn sun by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley
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hide and seek pumpkin
twisting, vining, reaching out
autumn tree decor
autumn tree by Angie Quantrell

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Thank you, Danna Smith, for sharing all about haiku last week in a very special blog post. You can read it here. Danna has offered a giveaway of 2 (TWO!) of her Poetry Pop Journals! Wow!

But first. I had to play. I used the template Danna shared and penned a haiku comic. Sadly, you have to use your imagination to understand the drawings, and it was much harder to print small words than it looks! This is Monet, our cat. She loves the garden and watching moving things. I assure you, she is much prettier in real life.
In case you can’t read the print, here is my haiku comic:
Monet writes a haiku.
hot summer bees buzz
zig-zag garden rocket ships
orbiting flowers
Now that was fun! We would LOVE to read your haiku! Post one in the comments or tag us with #haikumoment so we can find you!
Drum roll, please.
The winner (with assistant Monet) of the Poetry Pop journals is:

It got a little dicey after this, because then Monet wanted to play a paper game.

Alyson, come on down! You are the winner of 2 Poetry Pop journals!
Thanks, everyone, for reading and participating in the fun. And thank you, Danna, for the word play fun and inspiration!
Now, let’s all go HAIKU!


a stream meanders
like the path my feet follow
where do they travel?
meander by Angie Quantrell
Kruckeberg Botanic Garden
Seattle, Washington
Join us next Wednesday, August 14, when Danna Smith, author of many haiku and rhyming works, will join us and give us tips, strategies, and ideas for writing our own haiku poems! I’m so excited! Plus, she’s giving away not one, but TWO copies of her Poetry Pop journals! Mark your calendars now.
Wednesday. August 14. Poetry Pop. Haiku. #haikumoment
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heart of sunflower
beams joy to avian friends,
buzzes, and humans
heart of sunflower by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley

sweet zinnia nectar
and florescent colors call
flutter-bys, come sip
come sip by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley
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freebie flowers rise
stretch sunward, calling insects:
dinner special now!
dinner special by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley

peek-a-boo face stares
swims, plays coy in the wet sand
rocky bed for fish
rocky bed by Angie Quantrell

tiny dancer spins
skirts aflutter, graceful waltz
garden pirouettes
tiny dancer by Angie Quantrell
Yakima Valley