#Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! Misfit Alignment The stepdaughter is not a hipster. Not impoverished, yet she shops in the namelessness of the shelter store. She gathers things impulsively. Some items, are decrypt; would adding the missing elision make them more attractive? She hitchhikes stealthily onto murmurous conversations in other…

Originally posted on revivedwriter: The month of May, in the Catholic Church, is dedicated to Mary, and on May 1st it was the feast of “Saint Joseph the Worker.” This celebration was instituted in order to combat communism’s emphasis on workers’ worth for the state and to remind people of everyone’s worth before God, no…

Originally posted on Ada's Poetry Alcove (2): Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #30 Revise That Haiku … Soen Nakagawa’s “mountain peak” one note of the shakuhachi resounds endlessly piercing the winter clouds disappearing snow on mountain peak unfurls a Rainbow © Soen Nakagawa (1907-1984) ? trill of the flute winter clouds rent one not resounds ~~~ rainbow…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: orange asters– Harley’s chrome glinting in the brief sun ? ? by Ignatius Fay (Canada) Co-Author Breccia

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 水の面に触れては光る風となる　　黛　執 mizu no mo ni furetewa hikaru kaze to naru             touching             water surface             it becomes a shiny wind                                                             Shu Mayuzumi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Originally posted on Project words: ? Delighted to appear in Haiku Windows today – ? window cleaner how he follows me from room to room ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Windows 02/05/18 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/05/02/haiku-windows-window-cleaner/ ?