Sarah Hina

Loved this poem of yours. And Millfield! My husband was working there when I met him. Of course, it will always be known for its mine disaster...but also great peepers. :)

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light rain on new orchard grass
__________

my window
open just a crack
as i roll up and down
on crackling gravel
sipping a taste of coal smoke
spiraling into a thin sky
as evening air turns blue brittle
seeping into the fractured remains
of the old Millfield tipple

The best! 🐸

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Driving to Dairy Queen
with my daughter
through the ruralest
parts of southeast Ohio

before the time change
and after the flooding
so that it's 7:13 and
dark as midnight

but the moon
is a schoolgirl
with mud on her hands.

And suddenly we hear them:
spring peepers
everywhere

and everywhere
spring

Oh my gosh, Bru! What a nightmare. I'm so sorry you had to go through that, and I really hope your recovery goes well. On a less serious note...we missed you! 💛

deep red
the aching of the full moon
fills her crescent arms

#dailyhaikuprompt new moon

walking a small dog
on a warm February afternoon
we turn the corner to find
tiny suns in bloom

forsythia

It's infuriating.

51 school girls killed this morning for these fools' war games.

"operation epic fury"
the blood of innocents
on children's hands

another war
to make small men
feel big

My little space nerd heart was geeking out with you! 😁 Loved it! 💙

An Exceptional Poem by Maria Carvalho – Our Writer in Residence BIO Maria Carvalho’s love for words has always been as fervent as her fear of math. Her multi-genre short fiction has appeared in a smorgasbord of anthologies and literary magazines—most recently, …

Honored that my #poem "The Search for Starlight" was just published in Literary Revelations Journal!
literaryrevelations.com/2026/02/23/a...

Congratulations, Maria! This is a lovely and haunting poem. I really connected to it. 💙

clear and bright
call of the red winged blackbird
piercing the dawn air

#dailyhaikuprompt blackbird

Thank you!

Terrain in browns, sunset in orange, sky in blue

Rothko, in flight
I paint the earth
with my eyes

Snow covered tree limbs with a hint of sunlight.

branching
everywhere
one seed

#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt
#nature #imageandverse

Thanks so much, Maria! 🧡

plopped down
on the kelp couch
Poseidon sips
his salty tea
from a giant seashell

#5lines

an unfinished thought
the sickle-moon under cloud
ending in silence

An orange Queen milkweed butterfly investigates the flowering yellow buds of a succulent.

out of my natural
habitat
the undiscovered
country

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sweeping the kitchen floor
the remnants of living
Ash Wednesday
***
rushing to work
contemplation takes a backseat
smudged forehead
***
scattered in the last autumn leaves
flock of small brown sparrows take wing
Lenten prayers

snow covered
branches
stretch and move
catching the wind
a new day begins

#haiku #poetry

❤️💛

"Have fun" is the lesson that I needed twenty years to learn.

enjoying what
I'm working on
I've convinced the world
it's spring

Snowy mountain, blue sky, a ghost of a cloud, spruce trees in the foreground

under a blue sky
her quiet house
of snow