Originally posted on Icebox: Ten more days till the deadline for entries into this year’s Genjuan International Haibun Contest. Details here. The office is usually lenient with entries arriving a few days late. The four judges will read your works without knowing authors’ identities. They will be looking for haikai style, best understood by reading examples.…

Originally posted on Sarah writes poems: I write. My words spill over pages – scrawled words, jotted down hastily; poems pencilled into notebooks; my daily words, sandwiched between first drafts and shopping lists. Endless lists. I write in clinic. I’m not going to sit over a keypad while you talk to me. I write in…

Originally posted on kiwissoar: Spending time waiting is never easy, and I notice the small sounds.  Sounds of water running into the washing machine, Rod shifting his ladder as he paints.  I want to carry on with my painting, but can’t settle.  The hum of the fan becomes a background to this heat, and the…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: icy rain at the bottom of the lake a door to yesterday by Fay Aoyagi  (USA)  ?

Originally posted on Project words: ? mourning suit how mist seeps though every seam ? ? ?

#Haiku Happenings #11: The Living Haiku Anthology Posts haiku by Johnny Baranski, who passed away earlier today. Rest In Peace, Johnny! We’ll miss you! http://livinghaikuanthology.com/readings/haiku-readings/2732-johnny-baranski-reading-selection.html