Originally posted on Poet's Corner: Twenty seventeen And with Auld Lang Syne tonight For sake of old times We’ll take a cup of kindness Old acquaintances renewed ©Jemverse Photo – Jempics

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This tanka is for Frank Tassone’s New Year challenge. Stars, sky-spangles shift, slow and stately, wheels turning, through time and cold space. Each new year, another light in the endless firmament.

#Haiku Happenings #3: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Ontheland: from year end’s window I gaze past white frost flowers small prints mark fresh snow ©2017  Ontheland ~ This year has been another unique chapter in my blogging journey.  As we approach 2018 I am finally admitting that my main focus here is writing poetry.  If anyone had told me ten…

Originally posted on haiku tree: morning dew waking to find life is new ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 花束は火の匂ひして去年今年　　大木あまり hanataba wa hi no nioi shite kozo kotoshi a bouquet with fire’s scent… old year, new year Amari Ohki from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo