Month: August 2019

  • #Haikai Challenge #98 (8/4/19): katydid (kirigirisu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (8/8/19): Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Obscure perils: a #haibun

    A safehouse of sorts, although why I need one remains unclear. Nor why I need help I don’t get to play some video game. Then more instructions: “You’ve got to do this…” and “Don’t do that…” It’s like I’m being prepped for some mission. Only the parameters aren’t clear. I have the sensation that some…

  • a good morning

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: a good morningand especially good yeardaylilies and hosta The perennials are a wonderful source of inspiration, because of course the years contain challenging times too. This year, with our long rainy cool Spring, some farmers were not able to plant their fields. So we see some fallow fields…

  • Haibun #1

    Originally posted on the other bunny: i tell her i had a dream about her – we were in a scottish hotel, on the run for some unknown crime. she says she wishes it was real. on the window with the ocean view birdshit Stephen Toft

  • Haibun for a summer’s day

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? We took a picnic across the meadow, stepping carefully to avoid the cracked earth and the vole tunnels, to our picnic table beneath the big plum tree. We ate pan bagnat, plums sun-hot from the trees, and the first blackberries. We listened to a red kite screaming at…

  • “falling leaf…” a #tanka (8/7/19)

    8/7/19: transformation falling leaf a raven takes flight before the rain the transformation of seasons continues in spite of us #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Before dusk (06/08/19)

    Originally posted on My Haiku Musings: cloudy sky– dropping slowly over the horizon an orange smudge ? ? ? ?

  • “Spring dreams…” from Dave Read Poetry

    Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Read’s haiku appears in Under the Basho! spring dreams …last year’s butterflies sewn into her eyelids  Under the Basho, 2018