Originally posted on revivedwriter: The word for Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt this week is samidare, which is Japanese for “midsummer rain.” My birthday was this week, and it was an incredibly emotional day. Twenty-fifth birthday Not as happy as before: It’s a summer rain ?

Originally posted on Zander In Print: Cradling coffee lean against the granite wall umbrella at home Taxis and buses dank popularity choosing wet shoes Sparrows tear croissants shake the rain, fluff the puff breakfast on the fly Deluging sheets fall from seventeenth floor, pock the sidewalk; birds forage. Z for Frank J. Tassone’s Challenge #39…

Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: through the fine sprays of the garden hose a rainbow Pat R 6/26/18

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 複線より単線が好きかたつむり　　川崎益太郎 fukusen yori tansen ga suki katatsumuri             it prefers a single track             to a double track…             a snail                                                 Masutaro Kawasaki from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine) ,  March 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #7: Tia Haynes latest #haibun appears in Scryptic!

Originally posted on haiku tree: water trickles taking my thoughts down the stream ?