Month: September 2019
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#Haikai Challenge #105 (9/21/2019): September Equinox (Tsuki Shunbun) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
How did you enjoy your harvest moon, haijin? Thank you for celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the #Haikai Challenge; congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Reena Saxena3. Jane Dougherty4. Tessa5. Revived Writer 6. Janice7. Xenia Tran8. Jules9. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr10. Linda Lee Lyberg 11. Kerfe Roig12. Pat R13.…
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flutter- -haiku
Originally posted on Ontheland: flutter yellow bands on moth wings a grasshopper . . ©️2019 Ontheland Yesterday I saw a brown grasshopper that first looked like a moth in flight—a Carolina Grasshopper, I discovered afterward. In closeup photographs it is possible to detect the grasshopper body in flight…in real life it looks more like a…
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Today’s Haiku (September 21, 2019)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 三日月がめそめそといる米の飯 金子兜太 mikazuki ga mesomeso to iru kome no meshi three-day moon sobbing… a bowl of rice Tohta Kaneko from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
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#Haiku: Autumn Leaves
Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: “She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells burnt sienna haze autumn paints the verdant trees shades of ginger orange
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Last Stand: a #tankaprose
A clear sky, with all the radiant sunlight the lawn and leaves can imbibe, and more. A soft breeze that just sets the chimes’ melody with a whisper of song. The cicadas and grasshoppers, along with the non-migratory birds, carry on their own harmony. Not a hint of humidity. Forecasters talk of temperatures reaching the…
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Maths
Originally posted on Heed not Steve: he rolls the bones – two more days of summer —- © Steve Mitchell 2019
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#Haiku Happenings #5: Scott Metz presents a haiku by Gary Hittmeyer!
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2019 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai
Originally posted on Australian Haiku Society: Calling haiku poets (and non-haiku poets alike) all over the world to sharpen your haiku lenses for the 2019 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai. This is the 8th annual running of this event in which haiku poets from all corners of the globe spend the duration of the AFL…
Frank J. Tassone 