Originally posted on Rooted in Love: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/douma-wall.jpg Douma, Lebanon, Stone Wall The old village wall…I pass my fingersover its stonesand ask themwhat they remember

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 真清水の音のあはれを汲みて去る　　黒田杏子 mashimizu no oto no aware o kumite saru             crystal spring water             the pathos of its sound             I scoop up and leave                                                 Momoko Kuroda from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  ‘shimizu’ (spring water) is a…

#Haiku Happenings #4: Jack Galmitz’s latest haiku!

Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: This is the last post in the Lockdown Poetry series. To all those who contributed a very big thank you from all of us at Cafe Haiku. If you sent us something and we did not carry it, do not get discouraged – try again next time. A very big…

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: re:Virals 249 Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was?  plumes of smoke   curl around…   ?— Hifsa Ashraf, haikuniverse (2019)? Corine Timmer considers life’s rituals: Each time I read this poem, a different…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: reflected moon once I was young like a victory © A.M. https://underthebasho.com/current-year/ku/3262-anna-maria-domburg-sancristoforo.html

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 行先を食べはじめたる蝸牛　　堀切克洋 yukisaki o tabehajimetaru katstsumuri             it starts to eat             the destination             a snail                                                 Katsuhiro Horikiri from “Shakutori no Michi” (Inchworm Road), haiku collection of Katsuhiro Horikiri, Bungaku no Mori, Tokyo 2018