Month: September 2017

  • #Silent Saturday 9/30/27…a rest from #haiku

    Join me tomorrow for my first blogging anniversary! See you then!

  • #Haikai news: an anniversary coming soon!

    If you follow Haijin-in-action, you know I take Sunday off. This week, however, is no ordinary Sunday! It’s my first blogiversary! Join me this Sunday for #haiku happenings, haikai originals or reprints, and surprise new features! This does mean, of course, that tomorrow will be #Silent Saturday instead of #Senyru Saturday. So I’ll see you…

  • #Free-style Friday: a #haibun for #dVerse Poets’ Pub’s MTB – sleep

    Her Infirmity is My Insomnia I wake up at four in the morning. Try and sleep again. Mira coughs, inhales hard. Coughs again. She gets up and sprays her nostrils with her over-the-counter spray. I listen to her. All the while hoping for a sleep that does not come. sparrow’s song beneath a brightening sky bare maples…

  • Urban Daily Haiku: Hush

    Urban Daily Haiku: Hush

    Originally posted on Urban Poetry: In this urban daily haiku, “Hush” An illusion of a soul burying the pain deep within the wall of the flesh of the heart. Open eyes are unable to see the depth and the emotion that one can carry. Sometimes a  disguise under a smile. Depression lingers in the white flowers…

  • Today’s Haiku (September 29, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 風の名を教へてもらふ九月尽   下楠絵里  kaze no na o oshiete morau kugatsujin             I learn a name             of the wind             September’s end                                                 Eri Shimokusu from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #398 12/7/2014  Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

  • NHK Haiku Master’s Gallery ~ Sept.2017

    Originally posted on Bending moments: k

  • Brinkmanship #midnighthaiku

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Rising in silence Spirit of sorrow and joy Erasing the night I watch the sun rise from my doorstep. Inside, the humdrum necessities await. Outside, the small dog explores the garden with the same excitement every morning. Birds sing, the weather, fair or foul, reveals itself and…

  • Haiga 2017-028-30doh: Sky Bird

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: ? circling the pond on the first walk of the day i soar That the haiga may be seen and read as intended, all in one image, I no longer post the haiku separately beneath the haiga, in addition to being within the work. However I…