Month: June 2018

  • Midsummer Rain

    Midsummer Rain

    #Haikai Happenings #1 (6/25/18): Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!

  • #SilentSunday (6/24/18)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • My Daily #Haiku #3 (6/23/18): another #SenryuSaturday #Senryu

    pulled pork the promise of rain

  • Midsummer Rains

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Midsummer Rains   (a Haibun) During my teens, I worked for five summers on my uncle’s 100-acre Pennsylvania dairy farm. I loved being able to drive the tractors, long before I was old enough to drive a car. In mid-July we would make our second cutting of hay. We always tried…

  • Midsummer Beauty – Haiga

    Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #39 – Midsummer Rain Write your choice of a Haiku – Senryu – Haibun – Tanka – Haiga – Renga droplets of moisture kissing the earth of nature blooms unique beauty Photo Credit:  PEXELS

  • welcome raindrops fall

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: welcome raindrops fall midsummer rain brings relief dusty sparrows bathe Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #38: midsummer rain Image source: Wikimedia Commons (edited here)

  • #Haikai Challenge #39 (6/23/18): midsummer rain (samidare) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

      Summer has officially come to the northern hemisphere, haijin! You celebrated it in fine haikai style!   Congratulations, contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Reena Saxena 2. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules @ Jewels 5. Revived Writer 6. Xenia Tran 7. Floating Rabbt 8. Janice (Ontheland) 9. Linda Lee Lyberg…

  • Nookwezigan (Smudge)

    Originally posted on mishunderstood: ? For many years, I worked on a First Nations reserve. It was part of my job to become familiar with some of the Ojibway language and culture and to promote it within a daycare setting. Native American customs and spirituality have always intrigued me and still do. The legends and…