Originally posted on rivrvlogr: The challenge for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #52 Tagore’s “Last Curtain” is to distill a poem by Rabindranath Tagore into a haiku, which is then to be the base to create a troiku. Here is the Tagore poem to be distilled: Last Curtain I know that the day will come when my…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 自転車にほのと錆の香秋の暮　　脇屋善之 jitensha ni hono to sabi no ka aki no kure             a faint smell of rust             on the bicycle             autumn dusk                                                 Yoshiyuki Wakiya from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine,  October 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: final curtain falls billowing like ocean waves silencing the stars final curtain falls a veil across the sunrise no more blackbird song billowing like ocean waves there is no applause when the curtain falls silencing the stars dark clouds pass over the moon the curtain’s fallen Kim M.…

Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? My thanks to my friend, poet and editor, Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy for writing this tanka sequence, “Changing Notes,” with me. It was published in Kokako 29, a journal of the Poetry Society of New Zealand.    Changing Notes A Responsive Tanka Sequence by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy (UK) and Mary…

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: Tanka by Ram Krishna Singh in India ? ABOUT THE POET ? ? Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, India), has been writing poetry in English for about four decades. He has authored over 160 academic articles, 170 book reviews, and 42…

#Haiku Happenings #4: Gina’s latest haiku!