Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Spring’s sun melts snow Hawk’s shadow warns too late — Seeds left uneaten. ? ? Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of you choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the hawk (taka) This is my…

Originally posted on feathers: ? ? new year’s day —everything is dippedin chocolate ? ?holiday cooking

#Haiku Happenings #4: Shaun Jex’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 下界みな雲のうらがは春近し　　青木ともじ gekai mina kumo no uragawa haru chikashi             all of this world             behind clouds…             spring around a corner                                                 Tomoji Aoki from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine, July 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge, a gogyohka I can see the wind it swoops and glides slides silent and feathered grips sharp-beaked and taloned its name is hawk