Afternoon heat
the heavenly dance of
cumulus clouds
Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri is a Norwegian-Canadian translator, walker, coffee addict, haikuist, and short-story writer. She currently divides her time between Norway, Italy and Canada. She started writing haiku to get past writer's block but got hooked on the daily practice.
Her haiku, senryu, and haibun have since been featured in Frogpond Journal, Under the Basho, Best Haiku Anthology, Poetry Pea, Haiku Blossoms, Quatrain.Fish, Autumn Moon, Prune Juice, Songs of the Pandemic, Haiku Journal, Dadakuku, Heron's Nest, Hedgerow, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters. Her prose is widely published, most recently in Best Small Fictions 2023.
Haiku by Hege A. J. Lepri
Picture by Stefan Lehner
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 2nd August 2023