Month: November 2018

  • Slippery slopes (troibun)

    Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: The weather changed dramatically last week.  My goodness, it’s still autumn!!  Temperatures dipped into a frigid minus 15C with wind chills making it feel more like -30C.  Really! Many people disagree with this “wind chill factor”.  Usually  they are persons who usually drive to work and do not…

  • Creatix, 43

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: icy riverthe canopyof bare trees ——— flood waterthe crow percheson a dead fish Creatix, 43?

  • hayride…

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Tia Haynes’ latest haiku appears in Hedgrow!

  • Creatix 43 Haiku

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to be included in this issue! ? icy path I follow the clouds of father’s breath Rachel Sutcliffe, England ? ? via Creatix 43 Haiku

  • Haibun: A Safe Landing

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Awaiting the Doctor: An .@ImageCurve #haibun

        Conversations carry on outside the grain-laminate door. Papers rustle. A phone rings with a staccato four-beat tone in the key of “E”. Lights hum. I sit in the last examination room on the left. A middle-aged Filipina in sky-blue scrubs measures my blood pressure. Her eyes widen. “Let me take it on your…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 26, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 秋冷のダリア文節のように雲  坂間恒子 shûrei no daria bunsetsu no yô ni kumo             dahlias in autumn coldness             clouds looking like             paragraphs                                                 Tsuneko Itama from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • Haibun 157

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: i didnt come here and i aint leaving the older i get the closer i am to being me. yeah. it is a conundrum i know. i used to think i would not live that long. now at seventy two it all seems a miracle that will last forever. not…