Originally posted on Project words: ? another year the old porch swing squeaks again ? ? 43

#Haiku Happenings #1 (3/8/19): Barbara Kaufmann’s latest #haiga appears in Failed Haiku!

Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue39.pdf for posterity my leather bound poetry the toddler pukes on my elderly aunt updates me on every ache winter and I bring – from Failed, edited by Michael Rehling, March, 2019

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 鶯にプリマドンナの血も少し　　瀬戸美代子 uguisu ni purimadonna no chi mo sukoshi             bush warbler has             diva’s blood             a little                                                 Miyoko Seto from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), April 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? campsite rules: don’t without authorisation ? ? all alone . . . the last chocolate ? ? cancer ward the nurses break for a cigarette ? ? pantomime taking a bow in Parliament ? ? supermarket herbs my urge to water the basil ? ? Failed Haiku, A Journal…

Originally posted on method two madness: Seeds catch the air, scattering, dispersing, falling. They burrow under the earth, embedded, laden with green.  They wait to be painted in rainbows, to laugh with joy as they open and seek the sky.  They remember the kisses of bees. The North Wind pushes back, sunless and relentless, chilling…