Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: A rainbow is the marriage of sunlight and rain. When kissed by a raindrop, a beam of white light disperses, in a similar way to light through a glass prism, into the colours at the ends of the visible light spectrum. We are taught about optical phenomena in…

Originally posted on wordshophop: I had been practicing my django fontina for almost a year. There was something about being somewhere or nowhere and dropping the postcard poem addressed to someone I never knew. It started in the summer after my third grade when I entered my name in a postcard pyramid scheme. It was…

Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: ? First Place laid to rest her body sinking into stone Quendryth Young This is an evocative haiku that struck me on the very first reading. The art of linking to an image works best if it is subtle and full of interconnections that are not immediately obvious. The…

Originally posted on Ontheland: the cherry tree waits gnarled limbs breathe in April mist anticipating spring splendour that brings the bees first the leaves then blossom clouds ©️2018 OnthelandA tanka in response to Haikai Challenge #26 First [Cherry] Blossoms. I have always enjoyed blossoms when they appear but never before had I wondered when they…

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: Two years ago, Container‘s Jenni B. Baker expressed her interest in what she calls poetry intersections: I like to take things . . . and ask myself not “How can I make a poem about that?” but “How can I make that a poem?” What would it look…

Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * soft thunkle the bamboo chimes of garden * (yes “thunkle” is not a word. however, in this case it sounds like the word i want) * garden path already the seeds of spring * for Prompt #12 NaHaiWriMo 4-12-2018 * Lynne Jambor April 12 .…