Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ごつごつの柚子ごつごつのにほひかな　　辻　桃子 gotsugotsu no yuzu gotsugotsu no nioi kana rugged yuzu  and its  rugged smell                                                 Momoko Tsuji from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yuzu’ is a kind of orange and a winter kigo. ?

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: psych ward moonlight climbs the walls by Grant Savage  (Canada) ?

Originally posted on the other bunny: So strange to find you here, wasting under the weeds. Not only are you dead, you’re missing. No one left knows where your body is buried. As a child, you were always in your mother’s sight.  She’s gone, too, no hand to lay on you.  But if a mother’s…

Originally posted on Phantom Road: Jet contrails, Marcus. You see the sky was never meant to be scarred by them. And yet, we think of them now as normal or even beautiful. Surreal vapour calligraphy. It’s the same thing with relationships. No one remembers what the unblemished perfection was supposed to be like. The primal…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: Arid desert cold snowfall on crimson hoodoos sacred sentinels Copyright©2017 Linda Lee Lyberg https://frankjtassone.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/haikai-challenge-10-12-3-17-arid-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka/ ? ?

Originally posted on Zander In Print: Winter’s future hand — Turn my collar against her Hinting dry north wind Z ? Z Notes: Making the conscious choice to personify in a form that sometimes frowns on it.  Responding to Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #10 – “Arid”