A Month of High Desert Haiku!

For all of April (a.k.a. National Poetry Month), we prompted the ever-growing High Desert Journal family to send us their best “High Desert Haiku,” and boy did they deliver! Our amazing Social Media Coordinator/Nonfiction Reader, Evonne Ellis, collected everyone’s contributions throughout the month, and we’re excited to share them with you now—

The first spring dust storm
Wind, wind devils the dry earth
Erosion loves stone

—Erica Soon Olsen

On the wall, water
turns time into small flowers
that soften the rock.

—Fran Nimick

snow melt
every drop
counts

—Susan Nalder

killing the beetle
was like taking a knight’s life
armored with regret

—Levi Mericle

the sagebrush ocean
the unappreciated sea
that’s heaven to me

—John Bonn Waterman

desert road—
the wind eddying
toward home

—Scot Siegel

Love is like water
it fills the space it's given
you give me space, you fill me

—Scott Hartman

A world of sand,
With every grain
A secret voice

—Charles Renton

Desert sunset
Murmuration of starlings
Thousands of beating hearts.

—Barbara Robidoux

Trillium once picked
never in spring again bloom
your vase deserves less

—CMarie Fuhrman

It's not what I'd thought
It gives up it's gifts slowly
Like falling in love

—Kelly Coughlin

Seemingly infinite,
Bison flood the springtime plain,
Spilling ‘round green islands.

—Doug Wadle