#Haiku Happenings #8: Dave Read’s latest #tanka appears in Hedgerow! a gust of wind billows the curtains — I inhale  a full breath  of spring  *** hedgerow 131 Dave Read Poetry

Originally posted on Tao Talk: Grass-coated crickets serenade late August’s moon – silver ears listen. https://youtu.be/TjM9tZE_bDg ? image link here Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the katydid (kirigirisu).

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: cemetery garden the endless sleep of leaves   by Eufemia Griffo  (Italy) Blithe Spirit, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2018

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: acorns dive bombing our cars– ping! I was e-mailing my sister in Boston. It’s hot here, cooler there. I said: “say hi to your acorns” as she lives among oaks. She wrote me back the words that became the first two lines here. I capped…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: this darkness full of rain that clatters in the chimney and washes over roof tiles seeping through cracks and pooling on the floor is the summer’s end   the end of dusty death of grass and the bees wandering hungry migrations started the sky emptying of feathers filling with…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: Neolithic cairn rain, rain dripping again