Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . New Year’s sorrow our helpless our hopeless wrath told in the streets ? ? ? ? .

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: from our bed we see the cat glide by with its periscope tail —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 靴大き若き賀客の来て居たり　　能村登四郎 kutsu ôki wakaki gakyaku no kiteitari big shoes of a young visitor for New Year’s greeting                                                 Toshiro Nomura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: February 2015, my sister, at 27, passed away from cancer. December 2019 my mother was diagnosed with cancer. The haiku below is a memory of mine from my first day of school. I remember crying as my mother left me to the care of the teacher, and I remember…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 三日はやソフトのダウンロード中　　吉田悦花 mikka haya sofuto no daunrôdo chû             third day of the year             already downloading             software                                                 Etsuka Yoshida from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #298,  1/6/2013 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com

Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: touch of rain calligraphy of grass in the cobblestones