Originally posted on Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog: courtesan and monk, we sleep under one roof together, moon in a field of clover ~ Basho Outside, apple blossoms glow in the dusk. She lies on her side, head propped up on a pillow, her eyes telling me that something important is coming, my eyes…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image ©2020 Padre’s Ramblings for Colleen’s poetry prompt Parma ham with melon… pizza… tiramisu. I still remember that first time, dining out as a ‘grown up’. It was the Seventies… the little Italian restaurant by the Arches was all new to me. I wasn’t even old enough to…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: blackbird singing at the top of the tree self-isolated

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 叱られし子が唄を入れ石鹸玉  小滝　肇 shikarareshi ko ga uta o ire shabondama             being scolded             a child puts a song             inside soap bubbles                                                 Hajime Kotaki from ‘Oyoso Kimi To’(‘Almost Always with You’) haiku collection by Hajime Kotaki, Saku Shuppan, Tokyo 2018

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn deepens— the pumpkins colonize my grandma’s yard ? by Goran Gatalica (Croatia) Creatrix, WA Poets, #48, March 2020