Month: December 2017

  • Today’s Haiku (December 7, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 砂浜の忘れ鏡に霜の声    源 鬼彦 sunahama no wasure kagami ni shimo no koe from the mirror forgotten at the beach a voice of hoarfrost                                     Onihiko Minamoto from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, December 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Daily Haiku Special, Dec. 7, 2017–A Classic: The Unworn Necklace by Roberta Beary

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Attention loyal readers and followers: Roberta Beary’s classic haiku collection, The Unworn Necklace, is hot off the press yet again! This is its fifth printing. It was first published in 2007, and is a favorite of avid haikuists worldwide. As many of you know, Beary is a multi-award-winning…

  • first snow

    first snow

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 初雪や  いつ大仏の  柱立 Hatsu-yuki ya     Itsu daibutsuno      Hashira-date ? The first snow, When is the pillar set up For the Great Buddha? -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Kawase Hasui, “Tenno-ji Temple in Snow”

  • Workplace Haiku

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – just when I thought I’d got the job my stomach rumbles Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 05/12/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/12/05/haiku-in-the-workplace-the-career-defining-interview/

  • Christmas in Kyoto

    #Haiku Happenings #5: Toni’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

  • Today’s Haiku (December 6, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白障子午前の鳥と午後の鳥  西山ゆり子 shiroshôji gozen no tori to gogo no tori white paper screen birds in the morning and birds in the afternoon                                     Yuriko Nishiyama from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘shôji’ (paper screen) is a winter…

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 6, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: SENRYU blizzard . . . baby, it’s cold by Barbara Eaton  (USA) First Place Brewed Awakening Haiku Competition, 2017 ?

  • Falling

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: everything sparkles drinking the fresh taste of love the world slips away Kim M. Russell, 2017 The Kiss by Gustav Klimt found on Wikimedia Commons My response to Carpe Diem #1320 Falling in Love Today’s quote is taken from Paulo Coelho’s novel Eleven Minutes: “When we meet someone…