Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This extreme haibun (55 words) is for the dverse prompt, long spring day. Sun, hothouse orange, lowering to the tree line, shines directly into the west windows, shines through the open inner doors, floods the kitchen and beyond. We sit at the window, lapped by golden meadow and eat…

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

Originally posted on Icebox: グランプリ作品　Grand Prix  The Forbidden Pet  (Branko Manojlovic, Japan) 庵賞作品　An (Cottage) Prizes Way of Lilies  (Marietta MacGregor, Australia) Let there be Lightning  (Ignatius Fay, Canada) Waiting for Christmas in Ohio   (Chris Bays, U.S.A.) 入選作品　Honourable Mentions Lost   (Sean O’Connor, Ireland) Brazilian Night   (Marina Bellini, Italy) Red, Blue, White   (Dru Philippou, U.S.A.) Coal Mines  …

Originally posted on the other bunny: Swamp night in frowsty summer. At Kutsu’s house, his great-grand’s three-room prairie villa, smoke sleaves out our tight wet leers. Rosemary royals the hose harsh. Crozzled schwag ashes tongues tin-brined with near beer blech, ponged by blue Solo pyramids. In the morning, church, Welch’s communion to burn off the…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ゴリラいて春あけぼのへ首のばす　　岸本マチ子 goria ite haru akebono e kubi nobasu             a gorilla…             he stretches his neck             towards the spring dawn                                                             Machiko Kishimoto from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006