Month: September 2020

  • “Apocalypse Now” #Haibun

    “Apocalypse Now” #Haibun

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Colleen Chesebro’s latest #haibun for her own #poetry #Challenge!

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    Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: Marietta McGregor ? marooned dinghy its bow pointed towards the waves ? Lyn Reeves ? ?

  • World Haiku Series 2019 (201) Haiku by Zanka Zana Boskovic Coven

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (201) Haiku by Zanka Zana Boskovic Coven  ? Bare branches dancing… hedgehog wears a coat to the autumn symphony ? 裸の枝が踊っている ハリネズミがコートを着ている 秋の交響曲に合わせて ? Roots in mud flowers above the water clear as tears ? 泥の地下茎 水の上の花 涙のように澄んでいる ? Ocean dry sand Like a wave…

  • Nineteen Years Later: a 9/11 Commemorative #tankaprose

    Say their names. Nineteen years later, the pain still strikes deep. The memorial pools in the footprints of the fallen Twin Towers attract selfie-taking tourists. The names engraved in the marble counters that frame the pools appear forgotten. They aren’t Say their names. Feel the shearing of scar tissue on the hearts, as fresh grief…

  • Sound

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: a tree falls – not just we can hear a tree fall —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

  • Haibun: Lessons

    Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: Two of the lessons that my fifth-grade teacher taught me I’ve never forgotten. That’s because Mrs. Pearl Shirley liked to speak in aphorisms, which, as far as I know, she made up herself, and which she drummed into my brain by quoting them in her classroom several times a…

  • autumn flowers

    Originally posted on Ontheland: autumn flowers . . . a moon bridge spanning water’s passage . . ©️2020 Ontheland Moon bridge; photo posted on Pixabay by psaudio

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/13/20)

    9/13/20: front porch seen from the front porch rustled leaves #haiku#micropoetry#poetry