Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 雨蛙退屈で死ぬことはない　　　金子兜太 amagaeru taikutsu de shinu kotow a nai             tree frog             we will not die             from boredom                                                 Tohta Kaneko from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Tohta Kaneko (1919-2018)   ‘amagaeru’ (tree frog) is a summer kigo.

Originally posted on feathers: ? ? oh, katydids! the squeak of those hand-me-down shoes ? ? cast–off

Originally posted on Project words: lapping water the soft sound harbour sunset ? ? ?

#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/4/18): Debbie Strange’s haiku appears in THF’s A Sense of Place! The Haiku Foundation, The Shore – Taste, August 2018 Prompt and selections by Kathy Munro – August 1, 2018 solitude a loon and I taste the evening

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Lemon Grove, Sorrento, by Walter Bibiko ? sea water the lemons smell of sun and wind anna maria domburg-sancristoforo ? https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/07/25/a-sense-of-place-the-shore-smell/

Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: warm August night light fading — already? Ellen Grace Olinger Time Of Singing (1996) The Sunflower Drawing is by Kate Greenaway, courtesy of Reusable Art.  Her name in this post links to more information and examples of her art at Reusable Art.