Originally posted on Zander In Print: Wail of winter’s voice — Ears tilting to taste the tears Caterwaul of owls ? Z Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #12 Winter Solstice Kigo

#Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This is a tanka for Frank Tassone’s Winter Solstice prompt. ? Behind the grey cloud, snow-heavy or just cold rain, sun rises and sets. With this last setting, hearts sink— fear grows it will rise no more.

#Haiku Happenings #6: Jules’ latest #renga for my current Haikai Challenge! via (g) LIGHT; less to more…day (renga) (12.18)

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: dug in against the wind: fence posts ? feeling quiet . . . raindrops and the sound of raindrops ? ladling soup and steam . . . this sunbeam Published in Akitsu Quarterly: Winter 2017 (http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html), 12/6/17. *    *    *    *

Originally posted on Life in Portofino: Sun hides inside cave — America’s winter comes we hold on for Spring Posted to Frank J. Tassone’s American Haijin Haiku Challenge #12.  The challenge word(s) are “Winter Solstice.”  I thank Frank for posting this on his blog, allowing us to be unconventional at times with our approach to…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 子は親に嘘をつくもの冬満月　　長山香織 ko wa oya ni uso o tsuku mono fuyu mangetsu a child always lies to a parent winter full moon                                     Kaori Nagayama from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Over the houseboats a great blue heron lifts off through the mist ?  by Alexis Rotella  (USA)  Modern Haiku, Vol. XXX, No. 3, Fall, 1999