by Alison

It’s been a hard week -

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and help cheer me up!

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* Soap Fu is a business that I have started with my good friend, Clara who is a master at felting soap. Come check out our Facebook page to learn more!

by Kelly

How many haiku

have I composed while in bed

and lost by morning?

I’ve been a bad, bad haiku blogger in the past month. After February and my one-haiku-each-day pledge, it must seem to any Haiku By Two readers that my haiku muscle siezed up. But that’s not necessarily true. I’ve composed many haiku in the days since NaHaiWriMo ended. It’s just that I never got around to posting them online, and now, I fear, those never-recorded poems are hopelessly lost. Yet some things have been changing in my life recently. My husband and I are preparing to become parents. This will be our first child. In preparation, I’ve left my job. March, it seemed, was one big rush to “tie up loose ends.” And now I’ve got some time on my hands. I guess one could say I’m currently living in the calm before the storm. I’m hoping haiku can help me through this waiting game.

by Alison

a boy

the color of skies and trees

barefoot in the road

by Alison

the salsa song plays,

“I just want to talk to you…”

and we both cry

by Kelly

the snow leaves behind

dried hydrangea puffs and a

playground for my boy

by Kelly

his lips on my cheek

then he’s gone — his scent stays with

me and my pillow

by Alison

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thick March snow

creates another world -

Space Age Love Song plays

by Alison

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Two New Hampshire friends

turn their craft into business

and open Soap Fu!

by Kelly

sleet snaps and hiccups

against the house all evening —

he deflects my barbs

by Alison

at Zumba

I pretend I’m Madonna -

Kelly inspires me!