Month: June 2019

  • falling forever ~ haiku

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: falling forever feels like spring never ending this midsummer rain This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #91: midsummer rain.  Image source: wallpaperup.com

  • #Haikai Challenge #91 (6/22/19) midsummer rain (samidare) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (6/24/19): Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • #SilentSunday (6/23/19)

    A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!

  • #Haikai Challenge #91 (6/22/19) midsummer rain (samidare) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you savored the solstice, haijin! I know I did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Reena Saxena2. Jane Dougherty3. Jules4. Dwight L. Roth 5. Linda Lee Lyberg6. Tessa7. Janice8. Xenia Tran 9. Revived Writer10. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr11. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: Summer…

  • AFTERMATH

    Originally posted on kiwissoar: AFTERMATH a haiku sequence voices and the sun warm on my face winter solstice still the gold and red lingers on always a state of mind gratitude birdsong underlined by love still embers glowing in the hearth aftermath © Maureen Sudlow ?

  • #Haiku Happenings #5: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Rebecca Lilly!

  • Today’s Haiku (June 22, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): おちこちに水の音して濃紫陽花  長野保代 ochikochi ni mizu no oto shite koajisai             sound of water             here and there…             deep-color hydrangeas                                                 Yasuyo Nagano from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, June 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

  • Mountain Meditation: a #tankaprose

    Sit. Gaze upon me. Learn. I bear the storms that weather me blunt. I endure the searing sun the scours my surface clean. I stand. Strength in stillness: this you learn from me. Stop your petulant, random motion, so like a storm-tossed sea. Stand in your stillness. Feel your root. Then you’ll not sway at…