Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: midsummer sky the frogs croak into the blue by Deborah Karl-Brandt (Germany) 9th Polish International Haiku Competition, 2019 Deborah B. Karl-Brandt, born in 1981, studied Pre- and Early History Archaeology, Comparative Religion and Geography at the University of Bonn. She did her doctorate in the Department of Scandinavian…

Originally posted on John Looks Out On Life: an infinite void they were desperate to fill their souls withered

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: World Haiku Series 2019 (199) Haiku by Xenia Tran ? blossom haze spring is passing before our eyes ? – from Between Heather and Grass – Poems Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets by Xenia Tran (Nairn, UK: Holistic Linguistics, 2019) ? 花のもや 春が過ぎて行く 目の前で ? light rain…

Originally posted on This Lust My Ceaseless Koan: weight of the world shifting my step to miss a pill bug

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): うすうすと稲の花咲く黄泉の道　　　飯島晴子 usuusu to ine no hana saku yomi no michi pale… pale… rice flowers blossoming on a road in Hades                                                 Haruko Iijima from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Haruko Iijima (1921-2000)  ‘ine no hana’ (rice flower) is an…