Month: September 2017

  • Haiku 13

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: cherry blossoms i would love to put them in a poem this winter night a scarecrow disappears in the field fast falling snow winter day even my buddha starts frowning my moleskine a binge of words… all on the margins

  • #Publication alert! My latest appears in #Haiku in the Workplace: Looking Out the Office Window

    Pleased to appear once again in this week’s Haiku in the Workplace at the Haiku Foundation!   stained window a faded reflection of a spreadsheet   Source: Haiku in the Workplace: Looking Out the Office Window UPDATE: Alan Summers offers the following commentary: Ah, not the stained glass of cathedrals and churches, but weather stained…

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 27, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu autumn colors– the scarecrow’s shirt nicer than mine by Stanford M. Forrester  (USA) Write like Issa: A Haiku How-To

  • Haiga 2017-026-30doh: Palm Seed Color

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: ? the sunlit end of autumn school days kaleidoscope 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 will from time to…

  • Reside

    Reside

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: in this world’s cities ~ where we dwell on silent paths ~ amongst the hustle © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • #Tanka Tuesday 9/26/17…A Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge-64 and dVerse birthstone poem prompt

    glittering topaz surrounded by history more gilded than gold  no birthstone compares to the fragility of our lives   For Rambling of a Writer’s Weekly Tanka Challenge-64 and dVerse Poet Pub’s This One’s for you!  

  • Today’s Haiku (September 25, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 雁渡るをんなの影を地に残し  三橋鷹女 kari wataru onna no kage o chi ni nokoshi             geese migrate             leaving a woman’s shadow             on the ground                                                 Takajo Mitsuhashi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Takajo Mitsuhashi (1899-1972)

  • Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – 8 – Beware & People

    Originally posted on Ramblings of a Writer: Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – 8 – Beware & People Photo Credit #weeklyhaikuchallenge -8 Simple Guidelines. Using the words “beware & people” or just one or the other, write a Haiku poem. Haiku (also called nature or seasonal haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed…