Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #5: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 木の実降る背中のボタン押されたよ　　こしのゆみこ konomi furu senaka no botan osaretayo             tree fruits fall             someone pushed a button             on my back                                                 Yumiko Koshino from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘konomi’ (tree fruit) is an…

Originally posted on the other bunny: a butterfly peaking out of its chrysalis— #MeToo emerging Persephone: The myths have it wrong. Hades didn’t trick me into eating his pomegranate. I tricked him. Power over death? A chance to save Teleus? Homer: Teleus? Persephone: Yes, Teleus. Great-grandson of Ares? Nothing like Ares, except if you’re threatening…

Originally posted on Adas Poetry Alcove: Renga With Basho Hineri #8 missing a wife Haiku© Matsuo Basho (taken from Basho, The Complete Haiku by Jane Reichhold) First part of this challenge was to find an ending for this unfinished verse missing a wife putting on bamboo grass —————————— missing a wife putting on bamboo grass…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu   I know literature when I smell it– the dank book   by Michael McClintock (USA) Blithe Spirit, 2017   ?