Month: December 2017
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Scorching
Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: sun returns and burns ~ the incessant cicada ~ sings the heat away © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
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“Tower Carillons” A Tanka, #SynonymsOnly
#Haiku Happenings #2: Colleen’s latest #tanka for her current #poetry challenge!
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ki no ha chiru
Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 木の葉散桜は輕し檜木笠 ki no ha chiru sakura wa karushi hinoki gasa All the leaves have fallen and The cherries seem insubstantial As my cypress umbrella. -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Ito Shinsui
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#Wayback Wednesday: A Celebration #poetry #haibun #poetsunited #imagecurve
Unexpected Feast All thirty of us sit at folding tables covered in plastic in Oscar’s hot, unfinished basement. Pipes emerge from the boiler in the back corner. One of them runs the length of the basement over our heads. We eat Mariscara—a paella with lobster in a red sauce sans the rice; barbequed…
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Haiku
Originally posted on Bending moments: weeping willow barely there winter breeze (Haikuniverse 14.12.17)
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First Snowflakes ~ Moonbathing (Fall-Winter Issue, 2017)
Originally posted on Komorebi: first snowflakes… the sudden freezing of time whenever we say goodbye Maria Laura Valente Moonbathing (Fall-Winter Issue, 2017), edited by Pamela A. Babushi ?
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Today’s Haiku (December 13, 2017)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 走りつくして未だ枯野のすゑでなし 岡田一美 hashiritsukushite mada kareno no sue de nashi I ran all the way… the withered field not yet at the end Kazumi Okada ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo
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Haibun 69
Originally posted on Michael Rehling: hell is other people jean paul sartre had it wrong. hell is not other people. hell is our own convoluted view of ourselves. what takes us off center is our failure to find out who we really are. once we discover ourselves we can be set for life. oh but…
Frank J. Tassone 