Tag: haiku on healing

Look after each other | Peter Matthews

July 30, 2021

Friends and family

Treat everyone with respect

Maintain wellbeing

Peter Matthews, a country boy at heart, lives with his wife in the suburbs of Nottingham, England.  His greatest achievement is that he has aged fairly gracefully but has avoided growing up.  Peter has written poetry from the age of sixteen and blogs regularly at www.pollymermaid.wordpress.com.

For my Muse | Bartholomew Barker

July 29, 2021

Your caress and kind

Attention are the only

Medicine I need

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017.http://www.bartbarkerpoet.com/
Selected by the editor as a featured submission, December 2021

Growth | Poorvi Kumar

July 28, 2021

From pain comes prospect

And fallen tears bring treasure

Choose growth every time.

Part time student, part time aspiring writer Poorvi Kumar is a teenage girl from America. She found her love of writing at thirteen and has taken a particular shine to poems. So far her work has been featured in the Appelley Publishing 2021 Rising Stars collection. Find her at https://poorvikumar.wordpress.com.

Reality Sucks | Bartholomew Barker

July 27, 2021

Truth can be bitter

Just like nasty medicine

But lies never heal

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017.http://www.bartbarkerpoet.com/
Selected by the editor as a featured submission, October 2022

Transform | Poorvi Kumar

July 22, 2021

Sleep, hustle, repeat

Transform and prove them all wrong

Their words can’t touch you.

Part time student, part time aspiring writer Poorvi Kumar is a teenage girl from America. She found her love of writing at thirteen and has taken a particular shine to poems. So far her work has been featured in the Appelley Publishing 2021 Rising Stars collection. Find her at https://poorvikumar.wordpress.com.

Doctor Verse | Bartholomew Barker

July 21, 2021

Don’t edit yourself

Poetry is the fever

Let it heal your mind

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017.

http://www.bartbarkerpoet.com/

Survive | Poorvi Kumar

July 20, 2021

There, there, wipe your tears

When all seems lost remember

You will survive this.

Part time student, part time aspiring writer Poorvi Kumar is a teenage girl from America. She found her love of writing at thirteen and has taken a particular shine to poems. So far her work has been featured in the Appelley Publishing 2021 Rising Stars collection. Find her at https://poorvikumar.wordpress.com.
Selected by the editor as a featured submission, March 2022