Month: December 2017
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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”
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#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…
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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 ? ~ ?
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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…
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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…
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“Candlestick in hand…” – Buson Haiku
Originally posted on a french toolbox: Candlestick in hand, See, he strolls through the garden, Grieving over spring. Buson
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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
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#Haiku Happenings #9: Scott Metz features Dan Schwerin!