Month: September 2017

  • cloudburst

    Originally posted on Project words: cloudburst rain floods my thoughts ? ?

  • Ken Sawitri’s Plastic Bag

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: with the plastic bag a stork wraps the moon on its head © Ken Sawitri (Indonesia) Published originally in: Robert Epstein and Miriam Wald (Eds.), 2016 (1st ed.), Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku, Middle Island Press. Below are various reactions to this haiku by four poets: My first…

  • Amaryllis

    Amaryllis

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: ? 曼珠沙華  そろひ傾く  水の上 Manjushage     Soroi katamuku     MIzu no ue ? The cluster amaryllis Lean all together Over the water. -Kawahigashi Hekigoto ? Art by Tanagami Konan,  “Amaryllis”

  • #Silent Sunday 9/17/17: a rest from #haiku

    See you all tomorrow!

  • Haibun 27

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: defining the sound of normal what in the hell is a matter with me. i should be working around the house. i have tons to do but i am in the garage smoking a cigar and looking out at the clouds. i am sitting on the rear fender of my…

  • Today’s Haiku (September 16, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 三日月のせた水輪こちらへ来たがるよ  中村草田男 mikazuki noseta suirin kochira e kitagaruyo a watering with a tree-day moon on its top wants to come to this side                                                                         Kusatao Nakamura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Kusatao Nakamura (1901-1983)

  • #Poetry Performance Update 9/16/17 #haiku #haibun

    I plan to perform tonight. I know, I said that last night. Honestly, it’s happening tonight. Need a good night out? Rockland Poetry’s monthly Open Mic in Suffern, NY has you covered! Check it out! https://www.facebook.com/events/730471313802940??ti=ia

  • #Senryu Saturday 9/16/17

    rain patter the haibun I didn’t type  the haiku I wrote promises we never keep  summer wind first published in Failed Haiku 21