Month: May 2020

  • Good Morning

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (5/12/20): Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Curfew: Day 49

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Rajani’s latest #haibun!

  • Fifth Annual H. Gene Murtha Contest

    Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: Brent Goodman, Editor of Prune Juice Journal, and I will be judges for the Murtha Contest this year. PLEASE READ THE RULES, and we look forward to seeing your work! Murtha Contest Rules H. Gene Murtha did not ‘invent’ senryu nor did he write…

  • Haiku: Spring Flurries

    Haiku: Spring Flurries

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Trans’ latest haiku!

  • “bright verdancy…” a #tanka (5/12/20)

    5/12/20: Meher prompt: one stroke bright verdancy of the illuminated new canopies how we capture fear and hope in one trembling stroke #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haiku Happenings #6: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Clayton Beach!

  • The American Sentence

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: For Prompted Positive Poetry   Hello everyone. It is good to see you all. You realize of course you do not have to do the prompt; however, this is one of my favorite poetic forms. You will discover that I prefer brief, uncomplicated forms. I was taught how to write…

  • Today’s Haiku (May 12, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 路地に子がにはかに増えて夏は来ぬ   菖蒲あや roji ni ko ga niwakani fuete natsu wa kinu             suddenly more children             on the alley             summer has come                                                 Aya Shobu from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 ?