Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: In my childhood memories, when my grandpop visits, it is always a golden-glowing, long spring day with an azure sky dotted with drifting marshmallow clouds. When I am perhaps four or five, he takes me and my younger sister on a walk through a wooded area…

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: This past Sunday, April 15th, I got a jump on International Haiku Poetry Day by attending a haiku get-together at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed environmental preserve in Central New Jersey. The time flew by — too fast, too fast! — as we jumped from topic to topic about haiku-related things.…

Originally posted on Ontheland: It’s been freezing rain forever it seems. Vast puddles behind the house have frozen, melted, and frozen again. The first day of spring was in March and now, in mid-April, winter still lingers having teased us with dramatic reappearances and sudden exits. In the rain I hear birds laugh and chatter.…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: SENRYU oodles of daffodils– the beauty of an empty vase by Terri L. French  (USA) bottle rockets, #25, 2011 ?

Originally posted on Haiku Three Six Five. : blonde hair descending the escalator into a foyer of light.

#Haiku Happenings #1 (4/17/18): International Haiku Poetry Day is here! Celebrate by sharing a haiku! EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaborative 2018 — Read on www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/04/16/earthrise-rolling-haiku-collaborative-2018/