Haiku · Summer
August Afternoon
august afternoon —
the garden hose, the shrieking
joy of being eight
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“August Afternoon” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/garden-hose-haiku
Quick facts
- Poem
- August Afternoon
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 3 lines
- Form
- Haiku, Short Poems
- Themes
- Summer, Nature, For Kids, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 3 lines · one 3-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 5-syllable lines.
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Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalAugust Afternoon, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 28705f87275e1393…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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