Originally posted on Haiku For Living: ? . lock-down first the people thronged the parks then the trees alone ? ? ? ? .

#Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! Seasonal Challenges It’s not that simpledeep down I guess we all knewlucky stars can fade How can we conquer that incomprehensible blue horizon with its indentation of shadow and illuminations. More than thirty miles or thirty years of bad roads; can’t blame omophagous (consumption…

Originally posted on Ontheland: Two years ago in May we travelled to Toronto to see the High Park cherry blossoms, joining hundreds of others in a spring viewing. This May the blossoms may thrive in a more peaceful setting, in the wake of COVID19…only time will tell. northern springs . . . the scent of…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 口笛を吹くかに闇の白椿　　　飯田史朗 kuchibue o fuku kani yami no shirotsubaki             as though they would whistle…             white camellias             in darkness                                                 Shiro Iida from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? there is sky all day though clouds come and go sun-chasing rain-washed and we walk with downcast eyes ? there is sky behind the dark lines of dusk when the sun drops out of sight and the light in the puddles is quenched reflecting the ocean of unreflecting…