Month: June 2019

  • Skins

    Skins

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: when you asked bluntly ~ what is it like to be white? ~ I was lost for words —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • Window

    Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: A surrealistic painting of a winter sky adds a dash of mystery to the wall of a home in Yuma, Arizona. ? Wide-open window— a magpie on the mountain seems to know my name. ? Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher ? ? More SkyWatch Friday ?…

  • haibun 11

    Originally posted on petrujviljoen: Copyright Petru J Viljoen A headful of Virginia Woolf and one does then think of Ingrid Jonker too. Both of whom walked into the water. I wear my mother’s jersey. The pockets are convenient. Getting back into bed on account of the cold fishing out the stone I put in it…

  • Smuggs Chronicle ’14, Day 8: August 1, 2014 (a #TBT #haibun for #ImageCurve)

    Swollen masses of cumulus clouds swallow the sky above Mansfield. They spread like a glacier-paced avalanche. Behind them, patches of blue remain. Beyond that, the midday sun shines. We’ve already swum our laps and rested in two hot-tubs at Courtside. Now, we lounge in the shade, indulging in pineapple and literature, nearly indifferent to the…

  • 2405r

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: under new blossoms we drink and celebrate our impermanence

  • Bridge of sorrows

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Open link night at dverse. A trio of tanka. ? Photo©Joefrei over the stream a bridge—beneath water runs a stream bright with spangled hopes and fish leaps a bridge across sorrows ? sorrows bridge night and day you and me the past and what is to come streams of…

  • Daily Haiku: June 13, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu the meaty grin of her red-lipped mouth my divorce lawyer by Chen-ou Liu  (Canada/Taiwan) Haiku Canada Review, 11:1, 2017

  • “more summer rain…” a #tanka (6/13/19)

    6/13/19: knowing something happened more summer rain and unseasonable temperature we all know what’s happened we don’t know what we’ll do next #tanka #micropoetry #poetry