Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: For a few years, I served as a volunteer in education at The Haiku Foundation. In 2013, their Education Resources feature was first published.  Jim Kacian and I wrote the first set of lessons for the elementary grades.  Montage: The Book, edited by Allan Burns, was a primary…

Originally posted on Project words: ? flood tide waves of sunlight over sand ? ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 罠といふ美しきもの女郎蜘蛛　　　谷中隆子 wana toiu utsukushiki mono jorôgumo             beautiful thing             called a trap             a silk spider                                                 Takako Taninaka from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/24/18): Barbara Kaufman’s latest #tanka for Moonbathing!

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? Komura Settai nubi di vento – due cigni nuotano fianco a fianco wind clouds – two swans swim side by side © A.M.

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 筋肉のつめたくレース編んでをり　　大石雄鬼 kinniku no tsumetaku reisu andeori             cold muscles             doing             lacework                                                 Yuuki Ohishi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   ‘lace’ or ‘lacework’ is a summer kigo.