One of the ways I’ve been keeping connected with friends while staying apart is through sharing haiku (and getting together through video chats). Here are a few pandemic-inspired haiku from poets in Canada, Croatia, the USA and UK.

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– Djurdja Vukelić-Rožić

empty streets

feeling the warmth

of spring sun

– Carole MacRury

lining her new home

with stolen tissue

momma squirrel

– Grant D. Savage

corona virus –

the magpies build nests

just the same

– Juliet Wilson

social distancing

kites spread out

across the sky

– Jacquie Pearce

the tiny buds

I wouldn’t have noticed

shelter in place

– Deborah P Kolodji

masked up

my glasses fog

defog

– Alan S. Bridges

girls’ night out

clinking wine glasses

through a computer screen

– Jacquie Pearce

waiting

for the curve to flatten . . .

cherry blossoms

 – Terry Ann Carter

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More pandemic poetry here:

Borders: Real and Imagined (guest post by haiku poet Carole MacRury)

Poetry Pandemic (haiku)

An Abundance of Caution (a longer poem by haiku poet Michael Dylan Welch)

Ways to enjoy the cherry blossoms while social distancing:

Virtual community events through the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (including international haiku contest)

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival blog

Virtual cherry blossom walk around the Historic Joy Kogawa House neighbourhood (Marpole, Vancouver), with haiku by Sally Ito

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