Month: December 2017

  • Asahi Haikuist Network – December, 1

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: One poem of mine appears in Asahi Haikuist Network, December 1 edited by David McMurray. ? Ophelia’s hair stealing the colors of a Bordeaux wine ~ Eufemia Griffo Inspired by the picture of Waterhouse’s versions of Ophelia. http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201712010004.html

  • #Tanka Tuesday (12/5/17)…a feast of sight and sound for bare and ensnaring landscapes #haiku #poetry

      rising super moon the bare maples my eyes see ensnared in shadows the hum of nighttime traffic reaches my long-chilled ears   for kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 74 – Eyes & Ears and Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 61 – “STARK & TRAP”  

  • Haibun: Second Chance

    #Haiku Happenings #12: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for #dVerse Poet Pub’s Quadrille 46!

  • Shasta Abbey, August 2017 (A Haibun Sequence)

    Shasta Abbey, August 2017 (A Haibun Sequence)

    #Haiku Happenings #11: Michael Julian’s first #haibun sequence!

  • One line haiku

    Originally posted on Bending moments: black dog I feed scraps of my thought what’s left of the sun the mourning dove (Otata 24 Dec 2017)

  • Imagining

    Imagining

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: walking in moonlight ~ dreams become reality ~ when we make them so — Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • Today’s Haiku (December 5, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 百枚の田に百枚の冬の色  増成栗人 hyakumai no ta ni hyakumai no fuyu no iro one hundred rice fields one hundred sheets of a winter color                                     Kurito Masunari from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

  • cold wintry wind

    cold wintry wind

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: こがらしや 頬腫痛む 人の顔 ? Kogarashi ya     Hoobare itamu     Hito no kao ? The cold wintry wind. The throbbing pains of the swelling cheek. People’s face -Matsuo Basho Art by Shotei, “Cold Winter Wind” ?