Month: December 2017

  • the temple is chill

    the temple is chill

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 寺寒く樒はみこぼす鼠かな tera samuku shikimi hamikobosu nezumi kana The temple’s so chill That gnawing on the star anise Are the mice. -Yosa Buson ? Art by Tsuchiya Koitsu, ” Snow at Nezu Shrine”

  • #Throwdown Thursday (12/28/17): My latest on .@ImageCurve #haibun #haiku #poetry

    A Missed Invitation Mira and two of her nieces are outside. I stepped into Mom’s bedroom. She sat at her desk. The TV beside her played a Law and Order rerun. Her hair rested unbrushed and straight. She wore her house outfit: black slacks, with a causal navy-blue button-down blouse. “How would you like to…

  • Winter static … (one line haiku)

    Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? A one-line haiku published in Acorn, A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, #39, Fall 2017 ~ winter static   the crackle of your silence ? ~ ?

  • Chocolate Senryu Troiku Poetry

    Originally posted on Ramblings of a Writer: Chocolate  Senryu Troiku Poetry Photo Credit chocolate loved by most a treat rich tasty mouth full a special occasion a treat rich tasty mouth full how did the middle get there men caught in the act a special occasion but who’s fingers touch it last was it yours…

  • White Poppy (Tan Renga)

    White Poppy (Tan Renga)

    Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: white poppy it must have bloomed from a wintry shower [Bashō] but brings her little comfort her soul aches for her lover [V.Zems] Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1337-Tan Renga Challenge A Tan Renga is a short chained poem written by two poets. The first poet gives the “hokku” or “starting…

  • “Candlestick in hand…” – Buson Haiku

    Originally posted on a french toolbox: Candlestick in hand, See, he strolls through the garden, Grieving over spring. Buson

  • Today’s Haiku (December 28, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 枯原に立つ電柱の役終へて  佐藤宏之助 karehara ni tatsu denchû no yaku oete standing in the withered field the electric pole finishes its work                                     Konosuke Sato from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, February 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • #Haiku Happenings #9: Scott Metz features Dan Schwerin!