Simply Haiku, November 2003, Volume 1, Number 5

FERRELL, DONNA: lives on a small farm near Westerville, Ohio, with her husband and two children. Donna has taught high school English for over 20 years and is currently teaching in an adult literacy program. A co-moderator of Mountain-Home, an internet list for the writing of modern waka in the traditional style, her work appears in In Buddha's Temple, World Haiku Review, American Tanka, Mainichi, and David Coomler's Hokku--Writing Traditional Haiku in English: The Gift to be Simple, and Tanka Light.

A morning shower;
The pollen-hued drop
On a lily petal.

Sun-lit shallows;
Minnow tails flicking
Against the current.

An unknown path;
Mistaking the snake
For a tree root.

Spring wind;
Turning the cows
Into new pasture.

Morning fog;
The strand of spider web links
Tree to tree.

Fireflies shifting
Above the wheat field;
Rising mist.

The dew-covered grass--
These holey work shoes,
Their coolness!

Morning stillness;
With no place to climb,
Blue morning glories!

Autumn wind--
The swan's feathers lodged
Among the reeds.

The county fair;
From the flower arrangement,
A cricket chirping.