#Haiku Happenings #3: Dave Read’s latest #haibun appears in Otata! Dave Read Poetry: Orbits — Read on davereadpoetry.blogspot.com/2019/09/orbits.html

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: back to schoolthe morning chorusof alarm clocks

Originally posted on weird laburnum: in the bowlof the junkyard dograinbows dark peaksi gather upmy father? vibrating throughrainy sparrows?sad electric news formal garden?i eat the roots vatican laundry?the scent?of an extinct orchid a mile above?the disputed border?i dream of moles losing countof my breathsstranded starfish Stephen Toft

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A thought for Labour Day (May Day here). Frank Tassone’s dverse prompt yesterday. ? Through all the years of Christendom back through the mists of Judaism, a woman’s only function on this earth was to reproduce. In some minds, it still is. Her lot has been pain and suffering…

Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: Afternoon amblers First day of school is out Making it back home Squeaky new runners Smell of pineapple shampoo Exhaling fresh mint Half empty backpacks So many new faces – still, Walking home alone Feel the excitement Shiny newness of the day Hope hangs in the air ©…

Originally posted on Prairie Writers Guild – NW Indiana: when Barbara went her garden went with her cross-legged on the grass the Little League-r picks clover waiting for a ball coyotes harmonize with the train whistle the night silence gone ? Haiku by Pat Kopanda. Photograph below by Frank Hubeny. Field of Sunflowers at Willow…