Month: September 2018

  • Comment-a-Haiku Poetry Contest! – Submit Your Poem

    Comment-a-Haiku Poetry Contest! – Submit Your Poem

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Vita Brescia hosts another comment-a-haiku! Hat Tip to Merrill Smith for the lead!

  • Tan Renga: Temple Bells

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest tan #renga featuring Basho for Carpe Diem!

  • Today’s Haiku (September 7, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 詩を紡ぐために心に秋蚕飼ふ  北村妍二 shi o tsumugu tame ni kokoro ni akigo kau             to weave a poem             I keep an autumn silkworm             in my heart                                                             Kenji Kitamura from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • “Stormy sky…” a #tanka (9/7/18)

    9/7/18: wild graces stormy sky all of these wild graces we depend upon the balloons that we’ll release for our friend we’ll see no more #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • your fingerprintson my …

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Eva Limbach’s latest haiku! your fingerprintson my touchscreen daisies and roses http://evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2018/09/blog-post_7.html — Read on evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2018/09/blog-post_7.html

  • Haibun Wins First Place in Haiku Society of America Competition

    Photo: JD Hancock/Creative Commons/Flickr I am extremely honored and humbled to have won First Place in the Haiku Society of America’s 2018 Haibun Awards Competition with my haibun “That Summer.” The genre of haibun consists of the juxtaposition of prose and haiku in ways that allow the two genres to resonate uniquely with each other,…

  • Nudge

    Originally posted on haiku tree: sleeping in the dog nudges my hand ?

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/7/18)

    9/7/18: your laughter sudden cold after hearing my plans your laughter #haiku #micropoetry #poetry