#Haiku Happenings #8: Jules’ 3rd #renga soliloquy for my current #haikai challenge!   MAY 31, 2018 ~ JULES remembering hues (for my father) as many drops drip perhaps limitless that is the verse of this spring heavy dew, rain due, again reflective times from Sky’s eye? tears of loss weighing with bulk, the gray dread; headstones lining…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 畑にゐる母の小さき雲の峰　　小野寿子 hata ni iru haha no chiisaki kumo no mine a small figure of mother in the field cloud peaks                                                 Hisako Ono from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘kumo no mine’ (a peak…

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? Decoy ? I found a maggot, the size of a cat, on the kitchen floor. It mimicked a cat, grew ears and whiskers and rubbed against my hand affectionately. But I could still see the rings around its furless body and its grubby white skin. Then it sank sharp…

#Haiku Happenings #5: Barbara Kaufman’s #senryu appears in Failed Haiku!

Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: My sincere thanks to Roberta Beary for being the ‘failed editor’ of this issue! There are some wonderful haibun in this issue by some of my favorite poets! Please pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage and prepare to enjoy… ? http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue30.pdf ?…