Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. Yesterday was the first day this summer the thermometre topped 100°F (38°C°) but the flowers are still blooming. ? after hay-making chicory and cats’ ears scatter colour across the ocean green fragments of sky drops of sunlight ? ?

#Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ latest poetic #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! Open To Interpretations(haibun) To you I have become my wordsSharing some darker moments,Humor, retrospect, memoir…But mostly, perhaps more than romantic drivel –Inhaling new meanings, forms, symbols Loving the life, owning authorshipEvery word birthed, growing into sentencesParagraphs of compromise and promise. I can have…

Originally posted on Mindfills: manasarovar summer 2014 ? sunflares scorching red weals on summer meadows ~ earth’s skin remembers soft rose petal caresses tattoos to trace in winter *** Mindfills by s.s. for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge – natsumo (summer meadows) Cee’s FOTD