Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 風車いちばん端がさみしそう　　　奈良岡晶子 kaazaguruma ichiban hashi ga samishisô             pinwheels             the one at the very end             looks lonely                                                 Akiko Naraoka from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), June 2009 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘kaazaguruma’ (pinwheel) is a spring…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu ? family picnic the new wife’s rump bigger than mine ? ? by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA), Author The Unworn Necklace (Favorite Senryu, Modern Haiku Awards, 34:3, 2003)

Originally posted on feathers: ? ? bare branches —there were birds hereonce ? ? once — I’m prompting this month for NaHaiWriMo, on Facebook. Join us!

Originally posted on Project words: ? faster than the falling snow sledges down the hill ? ? ? ?

Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: In the clear night a fisherman pulls in a net filled with stars. © Zdravko Kurnik (Croatia) (1937 – 2010) This haiku showcases the precept “as above, so below” which was first laid out in the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. The stars not only rest in the sky, but…

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . storm-rip torn boughs jag askew the spell-struck wood ? ? ? ? .

Photo: Joe Shlabotnik/Creative Commons/Flickr A kept woman and a white wedding dress find their way into two insightful haiku by Lee Nash. sugar daddy the acrid sting of his tobacco The kept woman. Wouldn’t it be nice, the idea goes, if a man could provide a woman everything she needs, or – better yet –…