#Haiku Happenings #9: check out the Africa Haiku Network! H/T: Petru. Africa Haiku Network is Africa’s most prestigious haiku community. A network that stretches from West Africa to Southern Africa and North Africa. A blossoming community of African haiku poets. — Read on africahaikunetwork.wordpress.com/about/

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 父逝くやとぶらふ山の狼も　　　米田清文 chichi yuku ya toburau yama no ôkami mo             Father passed away—             a wolf in the mountain             mourns, too                                                 Kiyofumi Yoneta from ‘Kakyô” (‘Home Country’), a haiku collection of Kiyofumi Yoneta, Furansu-do, Tokyo, 2017

#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Andrew Wyeth dusk – what is done is done *** white sheet – at the sound of rain quieter the night ? © A.M.

Originally posted on the other bunny: Sadly the pepper dies. The debate that follows leaves the olive oil upset. Six days follow w/ no dawn – so it’s like, twelve nights, for those keeping score. Although painful we scoop the debates into tiny supermarket trollies. Defining us as hunchbacks the debates make it hard for…

Originally posted on Ontheland: Two fledglings take flight, young monks in search of wisdom Soulmates since childhood, Siddhartha and Govinda Together in dreams, apart in the waking world feathers in their hearts buffeted by winds of time Rivers feed the sea raindrops fill every stream listen to the sounds rivers speaking many tongues Do rivers…