Month: September 2017

  • Haiga 2017-025-30doh: Black & White Umbrella

    Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: ? autumn rain i sit in maple color umbrellaless 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…

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 26, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: almost autumn finding a plum that the squirrels missed by Marco Fraticelli (Canada), Author Drifting ?

  • hometown

    Originally posted on Project words: hometown visit the family tombstone moss covered now ? ?

  • Happy Anniversary, Colleen!

    Happy Anniversary, Colleen!

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (9/26/17): Reena Saxena celebrates Colleen’s blogiversary with a touching #haibun! Happy Anniversary, Colleen!

  • #Monoku Monday 9/25/17: a #Quadrille #41 for dVerse Poet’s Pub

    Fra Diavolo   Crushed red pepper, like yellow sunflower seeds in powdered blood. Marinara sauce made fresh from boiled tomatoes. Mixed together, poured over a fresh lobster and linguini. Forkfuls, washed down with Chianti!   For dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille # 41 (spice): “Your entire poem need not be spicy or relate to spices (though…

  • Tanka: September Green

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest Tanka!

  • Mexican Haiku

    Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Christina Rascon Castro gave a wonderful presentation on this at Haiku North America. The translated haiku were a highlight. These are from her selection of early Mexican haiku, which may present as much as very short Modernist Spanish poems as they do as haiku.…

  • etymography

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Words: the building blocks of language. To me, that analogy suggests further extensions. Is an author an architect? A printer a builder? What of the reader then? Do they inhabit the structures of language? Are they residents or visitors? Perhaps they wander endless streets which link every word ever…