Month: January 2019

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/7/19)

    1/7/19: frigid empty yard frigid air and my fear come together #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Black Crow Awakening

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Today I am attempting a Renga poem for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge. He asked us to write a Haikai poem of our choice that included crow’s first call. A Renga is usually more humorous in nature and often composed by two or more people each adding a verse. I hope…

  • dark prophet

    Originally posted on a poem in my pocket: photo & inspiration from Frank J. Tassone

  • Ravens

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt, we are writing about the ravens’ or crows’ first cry. I wrote about the ravens feeding Elijah in the desert, a story that Frank brought up in his challenge post and that I have liked for a while.  In desert and drought Ravens brought Elijah bread,…

  • #SilentSunday (1/6/19)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • #Haikai Happenings #68 (1/5/19): first raven/crow (cry)(hatsugarasu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you enjoyed (and recovered from) your celebrations of the New Year! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Jules @ Strands3. Janice 4. Helene Vaillant 5. Jane Dougherty6. Merril D. Smith7. Janice (2)8. Linda Lee Lyberg 9. Revived Writer10. Toni Spencer11. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr12. The Dark Netizen Powered…

  • Three haiga in Failed haiku #37

    Three haiga in Failed haiku #37

    Originally posted on Anna Maris: Three of my three submitted photo-haiga have been published in the first issue of the senryu journal Failed haiku 2019. The journal is edited by Mike Rehling and is one of the most celebrated during the last year. The first image is from Marinsky park in Kiev, and the other…

  • Semitone

    Originally posted on Yay Words!: Mine marrow’s memory for every thing you forgot to write before sleeping. You dream the yard is tangled with snakes, living with the dead. bone china the past in pastoral