Originally posted on Tao-Talk: i see you i Pit stop trailside, I Walk through the tall grass, then squat – Soft brown eyes meet mine. Tan fur, curled and spotted, rests. My bizness done, we part ways. ? “Doe and Two Fawns,” by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tate (1819-1905) ii Mother looks both ways, crosses country road…

Originally posted on revivedwriter: This is for Frank J. Tassone’s weekly haikai prompt, about fawns (kanoko). The imagery is also good for Mothers’ Day, which is today. gangly-leggèd fawn courageously tries to stand, doe-mom by its side

Originally posted on Starlight and Moonbeams: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/05/03/haikai-challenge-5-3-20-flower-moon-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ May! The time of flowers (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), the beginning of summer by the Traditional reckoning, a Marion month according to the Roman Catholic Church, #NaTankaMo: the fifth month of the year has a lot going on! When the full Moon appears this month, it will…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 原爆ドーム仔雀くぐり抜けにけり　　草間時彦 genbakudômu kosuzume kuguri nukenikeri             Hiroshima Dome             a young sparrow             passes under it                                                 Tokihiko Kusama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Tokihiko Kusama (1920-2003)　‘baby (or ‘young’) sparrow’ is a spring kigo.