Month: October 2017

  • season

    Originally posted on Project words: ? season’s end the fading patchwork of pitches ? ? ? ?

  • Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Tuesday Challenge: EERIE & COSTUME

    Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Tuesday Challenge: EERIE & COSTUME

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge is up!

  • Nature

    Nature

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Reena’s latest #tanka for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge!

  • traveling alone

    traveling alone

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: ? None is traveling Here along this way but I This autumn evening. -Basho ? Art by Hiroshi Yoshida

  • #monoku Monday #2: Creak…a dVerse Poets Pub #Quadrille #Monday #haibun special

    Creak stairs under footsteps floorboards of the worn front deck the opening front door   our screams at the pale face dripping blood from red-stained fangs coming through the door   The accented “good evening” before he fills my pumpkin case   creak     feet scampering      into the night   For dVerse…

  • Today’s Haiku (October 23, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 落ちたのは海 一瞥の林檎よ  清水かおり ochitanowa umi          ichibetsu no ringo yo             fallen to the sea                   the apple glimpses it                                                 Kaori Shimizu from “Chô Shinsen 21” ,  (“Ultra New Selection 21”) edited by Bansei Tsukushi, Yasuko Tsushima, Leona Takayama, You-shorin, Nagano, Japan, December 2010

  • Three Haiku – Darkness

    Originally posted on qbit: 1. Creosote darkness – Refineries on the Turnpike Tannin-colored skies 2. Year draws short of breath – Conspicuous consumption Dark red Christmas lights 3. Shattered streetlight glass – Match strikes, cigarettes glowing Darkness flashes teeth ? ? For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

  • Cloak of Darkness

    Cloak of Darkness

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Day turns round to flee Chased by the night’s heavy cloak Winter is coming (C)- Vivian Zems (#Haiku) Frank Tassone #Haikai  Challenge 4: darkness