Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A haiku for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. ? hens in the yard watch the changing spring sky for the first swallow ?

#Haiku Happenings #3: Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, there is a walking bridge across the James River. The cliff swallows have taken residence in the tall concrete columns. Attaching their mud nests to the ceiling, they lay their eggs and hatch out their young as people come and go below.…

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: long paddle upstream resting in shade beneath bluff buds on oak branches swallows nesting under ledge catching flies over water This tanka is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #78: swallow.