Month: February 2018

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #13: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • The Specialized Evolution of the Mutated Ant

    Originally posted on the other bunny: With undisclosed sources of funding, our project was going quite well. The objective was to develop a secret society of super-ants which would combat terrorism, cause humans to hide underground like sand dogs. Within a large container supplied with piped in air, we grew several colonies of mutated ants.…

  • NaHaiWriMo 2018: beating the heat

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: making up reasons to stay indoors — you, me, and the A/C NaHaiWriMo 2/9 prompt = beating the heat. Prompts, posts, and participant submissions: https://www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo/ More on NaHaiWriMo and writing haiku: http://www.nahaiwrimo.com *    *    *    *

  • #nahaiwrimo #2 (2/9/18) #haiku

    2/9/18: owl version 1 ( previously-published disqualification) new moon a dead mouse rises in a bloody —“A Visit to the Owl,” my blog, November 13, 2017 Version 2 (original) Bear Mountain Zoo … the Great Horned owl stares at passing patrons #nahaiwrimo #myhaikupond #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Günther Klinge’s Oil Lamp

    Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: night in the garden an oil lamp on the table lighting the silence © Günther Klinge (Germany) (1910 – 2009) We have an interesting and moody setting. I can imagine a dark garden table with an oil lamp on it, and the flowers, grass, and other plants around barely lit…

  • Today’s Haiku (February 9, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 目を閉じてまつげの冷たさに気づく  神野紗希 me o tojite matsuge no tsumetasa ni kizuku             closing my eyes             I notice coldness             of my eyelashes                                                             Saki Kouno from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue,  , Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • #Tanka: Joy

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: tender shoots spring forth fertile loam teems with earthworms joy fills my garden scarlet rosebuds drenched in dew foretell sweet bountiful blooms ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg Rambling’s of a Writer- Week 83

  • Call

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: humanity diminished – clarion call of the skylark ….. A wish for a South Africa in dire need of a new dawn. May it happen. Linked to Frank J Tassone’s haikai challenge – skylark