Month: September 2018

  • Grounded, but Ready to Soar

    Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: We lie on our backs on the wide green expanse between dorms. Soon we’ll be starting classes here–a future scary, uncertain, and suffused with what ifs. We’re filled with the ardor and fire of youth. But in this moment, we’re still and content, bodies grounded, yet…

  • Seen and Unseen Apple Trees: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve

    I see the apple tree. It’s dark-gray and brown, ridged bark, with Y-shaped branches splitting upward like outstretched arms from its knotted trunk. Its leaves fill every branch. The 2 x 4 Dad and I nailed onto the trunk below the split, so Frankie could plant his foot to climb it. I see him in…

  • haiku series 19.9.18

    Originally posted on Ontheland: clear autumn night folding ribbons of stars in infinite darkness : how vast the night sky on the edge of a galaxy I feel so small : poems, words spill from an ocean of stardust : gazing into space a splat drops onto my page an avian poem? : ©️2018 Ontheland…

  • #FemkuMag

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the new issue of Femku! paper angels how I still remember seeking something in the nothing endless fog – Rachel Sutcliffe https://femkumag.wixsite.com/femkumag

  • Today’s Haiku (September 20, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 空尽きるところ花野の尽きるところ  大峯あきら sora tsukiru tokoro hanano no tsukiru tokoro             where the sky ends             where a flowering field             ends                                                             Akira Ohmine from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, December 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  “hanano’ (flowering field) is an autumn kigo.

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/20/18)

    breaking dawn already longing for evening quiet #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: Sept. 20, 2018

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: august flood– a sprawling meadow reflects the stars   by Goran Gatalica  (Croatia) Allegro Poetry Magazine, #18, 2018  

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #2: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post