Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? I couldn’t sleep again last night, too many thoughts and problems to be solved or not, out of my hands. I worried that I had not seen a single hare this early spring around the house, racing, boxing through the grass. So I put on boots and walked…

Originally posted on Xanku: After my husband left, I was left with a 100-year-old house with filthy molding, damaged plaster, cracked windows and peeling paint. I had to sell it, because all he wanted out of 40 years was the equity, plus I couldn’t really afford to live there. Stripped, patched, and sanded I transfigured…

Originally posted on Longing For Water: Last night in a dream I was running through a field dodging blobs of green pulses and firing back at the shooters. I quit while I was ahead… Then I was leaving school with my best friend. {Yes, high school.} I drove out the entrance away from where everyone…

#Haiku Happenings #6: Robert Davey’s #haibun appears in Blythe Spirit! After visiting my mother in hospital I drove to see my sister, who lives in the next county. Ellen no longer sees Mum. I took Ellen to Hay-on-Wye for the afternoon. With summer long over the town was almost empty. We explored the quiet streets…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): みほとけの手の平は空（くう）鳥雲に　　鈴木貞雄 mihotoke no tenohira wa kû tori kumo ni             deity’s palm             is empty…             birds into cloud                                                 Sadao Suzuki from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, May 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘tori kumo ni iru’ (‘bird enters clouds’ (meaning…

Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: Concentric circles Rippling from one pebble dropped From the wooden bridge