An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction.
In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry.
Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch.
In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books.
Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.
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17 thoughts on “Barn Swallows, haiku”
Beautiful haiku to describe swallows, Colleen! Happy Easter from the road in central Utah! We’ll likely come home to our local violet- green swallows. ☀️🕊
Beautiful haiku to describe swallows, Colleen! Happy Easter from the road in central Utah! We’ll likely come home to our local violet- green swallows. ☀️🕊
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Happy Easter! I look forward to seeing the swallows here too. They are always a welcome sight.
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HI Colleen, this is lovely.
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Thank you, Robbie. I knew you and Kerfe would enjoy my “bird” poetry. We all seem to love the birds. 🕊️
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Yes, we do 💗
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Perfect image of swallows Colleen one of my favourite birds ❤️
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They are so cute! I love their little mud huts. And they reuse those nests each year. Thanks so much. 🙏🏻
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The freedom of flight comes through eloquently, Colleen.
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I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a swallow, although they seem to be good inspiration for poetry!
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I always see swallows when I go to baseball games. I love the last line. (K)
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Hi Colleen, Wonderful haiku celebrating the return of the swallows! Thanks for linking up and adding to this week’s conversation. Have a good week!
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Thank you, Mark. I love your weekly haiku challenge. It’s always informative and fun.
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Happy Easter, Colleen! 💖
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Thank you so much, Franci. Happy Easter Monday to you. 🩵
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Great haiku, Colleen! Your last line made me chuckle.
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
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LOL! This was a political statement, for sure. LOL! 😀
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