#Haiku Happenings #14: Janice’s latest rendition of a Basho haiku for Carpe Diem!

#Haiku Happenings #12: Tayna Haynes’ latest haiku appears in the current edition of Stardust!

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: February 18,1994 Chilling cold, a slate grey day. As we step from the hearse the rain, with an audible sigh of relief from the burgeoning sky, begins. People come forward, offer umbrellas. Nothing penetrates the mask I wear, not the rain, not the cold, only the gaping emptiness of loss.…

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Just a poet… a leaf strewn on the roads of this world ~ Just a poet with nothing to offer but his heart to the world

Originally posted on No-Madder Nomadder: A foggy morning at Otter Springs, FL. The ambiguous shade of grey. Oh, how I dislike the shade of grey. It has left me in a pool of despair, this shade of grey. Black is black, and white is white all perfectly honest, true, and easily understood. What of the grey, is…

Originally posted on OUR POETRY CORNER: 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…