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Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: These are excerpts from a rather long document by Basho, considered to be the top haiku poet of the 17th century. I am presenting these thoughts of his because they ‘make clear and plain’ what Basho believes is the correct approach to haiku. Today, lots of poets are attempting…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday. ? this flowered fancy slips into place among the grey stones where fish flit and dart birds wing through foaming leaves

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蓮の葉のひとつひとつが風の椅子　　　嶋田麻紀 hasu no ha no hitotsu hitotots ga kaze no isu             lotus leaves             every one of them is             a chair for the wind                                                             Maki Shimada from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan,…

Originally posted on Haiku Three Six Five. : visibility impaired, the traffic stutters – summer blossom storm.

#Haiku Happenings #2: Barbara Kaufman’s haiku appears in Jumble Box!

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . country manor house settled in its secret gardens figures on the lawn ? Another kind of beauty. Great grey ocean-going cranes, in line abreast with cabins the size of parish halls, herald a vast sky which promises Seven Seas and The Whole Wide World. A World which begins…