Originally posted on rivrvlogr: ? photos on laptop showing newlyweds posing beneath oak’s new leaves The prompt for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation # 86 – Carpe Diem’s Utopia is to write a modern Utopian (excellent) haiku, while using classical rules. Those rules are listed below, to show how this haiku, while having a modern theme,…

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: unable to get hibiscus red the artist eats the flower                          Raymond Roseliep it flows out vivid crimson blooms into inky haiku                            Kim M. Russell, 26th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1667 Tan…

Moonstruck enough, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. the real cie2. Tessa3. Jules 4. Linda Lee Lyberg5. Deborah6. Janice 7. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Tomorrow, the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Officially established in 1968 by an act of Congress, the day commemorates those US military…

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: reshaping my Aegean dream … waves at noon

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? floating leaves we sink into our silence ? Stadust Haiku Issue 29, 20 May 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1isDX5Chi4Wqkflt0mwUOHfLWP3d30w16/view

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: in the may sun the hedge is singing where did sorrow go? ? sun streams slantwise beneath the clouds field of red gold ? suddenly the dark gold softens to grey singing with nightingales ? nightfall birds still singing as if the stars were not enough

Haiku Happenings 36: Chevrefeuille presents Carpe Diem #1667 Tan Renga Challenge Month May (14) featuring the haiku of Raymond Roselip! Raymond Roseliep (1917 – 1983) was a poet and contemporary master of the English haiku and a Catholic priest. He has been described as “the John Donne of Western haiku.” Born on August 11, 1917,…