Originally posted on revivedwriter: This week’s haikai challenge from Frank J. Tassone is “smoldering hot (moyuru)” . I wrote a few, and these are the 2 that I like best. Impatient protests: Unfriendly sun already — Air conditioning Heat steals my water — Pastor’s homily about Being fertile soil

Originally posted on method two madness: on the horizon top melts into bottom and becomes something else For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge #147 smoldering hot. And a watercolor for World Watercolor Month, hosted by Charlie at Doodlewash.

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (158) Haiku by Réka Nyitrai ? within a stone the river talks in its sleep ? Under the Basho, 2019 ? 石の中で川は眠りの中で話します ? autumn dusk— a red sock goes missing ? Harusame, 2019 ? 秋の夕暮れ 赤い靴下 行方不明になる ? falling leaf the shape of my…

#Haiku Happenings #8: Gregory Piko presents haiku from his curation of THF’s June 2020 Per Diem! autumn sunset I take the rickety stairs three at a time (Kathy Kituai)   *** last light haystacks edged with golden lace (Hazel Hall) Per Diem Archive: June 2020 – Gregory Piko

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 山霊に囲まれて居り青蜥蜴　　桂　信子 yamabiko ni kakomareteori aotokage             surrounded by             mountain spirits…             a blue lizard                                                 Nobuko Katsura from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  Nobuko Katsura (1914-2004)