Month: June 2019
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Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 8, August 1, 2014, part II (my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun)
I watch Mira exit the Pipe Slide at the North Hill Aquatic Center. She flounders in the exit pool, her arms and legs thrashing as her head bobs up and down. My heart skips a beat when a lifeguard stands up, but she recovers. After I slide down, she tells me, “It happens so fast.…
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“Embrace Change,” A Haibun/Haiku
#Haiku Happenings #9: Colleen Chesebro’s latest #haibun!
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after/image by Jim Kacian
#Haiku Happenings #8: Scott Metz reviews Jim Kacian’s new book of haiku, After/Image!
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Conversations with Ravens
Originally posted on kanzen sakura: A gogyohka, which translates in Japanese to five line poem. It has five lines – that is it. For Lynda’s prompt at dVerse Poets Pub, artwork by Jackie Hulbert. Pick a painting and write how it inspires you. Thank you for the wonderful prompt Lynda! Conversations with Ravens “And the…
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“summer solstice…” a #tanka (6/21/19)
6/21/19: prompt-free summer solstice and the sun breaches the rain clouds liberation, a drive home, the last project in my wake #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Summer Solstice ~ Haibun ~ Daily Moments June 21 2019
Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: ? Another grey day and it’s the first day of summer [sigh]. She worries the skies won’t clear and again tonight she will not see that beautiful, humongous full moon. Well, no reason to fret all day and at least it’s not raining …yet. The weather has been…
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Australian Haiku Society Winter Solstice 2019 Haiga Kukai: Non-Seasonal
Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: The Australian Haiku Society invites contributions from haiku poets worldwide to the AHS Winter Solstice Haiga Kukai. The Kukai will open on the first day of the Southern Hemisphere winter solstice, which occurs in Australia on Thursday, 22nd June, 2019. The submission period will remain open until Saturday 28th June. Please send…
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shadows’ longest breath ~ haiku
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: shadows’ longest breath warm light of midsummer eve shorter days coming This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #90: Midsummer. Image: Summer Solstice 2009 – Niagara River ~~ click image for larger view in new tab ~~
Frank J. Tassone 