Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: VOTES:411*** SCORE:09 COMMENTS: 1. I won’t be surprised if this wins. Love the strong metaphor!  2. A powerful image http://wwwcaribbeankigokukai.blogspot.it/2018/04/123.html

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rimed fence the cattle and wind change direction ?   by Debbie Strange (Canada) Honorable Mention British Haiku Society Awards, 2017 ? ?

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: cusp of spring — somewhere in the landscape blackbirds calling Published in the Asahi Shimbun‘s Asahi Haikuist Network section (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805040006.html), 5/4/18. *    *    *    * ?

#Haiku Happenings #7: Dave Read’s haiku appears in Bamboo Hut! curling up before the fire … autumn leafs Bamboo Hut, Spring 2018 — Read on davereadpoetry.blogspot.com/2018/05/curling-up-before-fire.html

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 何にでもなれる粘土よ夏来たる　　江渡華子 nan ni demo nareru nendo yo natsu kitaru             clay can become             anything—             summer begins                                                 Hanako Eto from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: knotted branches the forgotten nest of a heron — Eufemia Griffo Under the Basho, Apr. 2018 bird song she hums her favourite tune — Eufemia Griffo ( Otata, Apr. 2018) https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/earthrise/earthrise2018.pdf

Originally posted on Ontheland: Cherry blossom viewing for High Park in Toronto, Ontario: https://youtu.be/tq-2GIUGj5o watching for blossoms glimpses of cherry pink sky a spring tradition I lived in Toronto for over 30 years and was not aware of the cherry tree groves in High Park. For one to two weeks a year the imported cherry…