Month: September 2020

  • Even Then (an inverted senryu)

    Originally posted on SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED: Even when he steps outside into bright sunshinethere’s still plenty of darkness —————[|||]—————RDP Saturday ~ DARKNESS ~———[||]———

  • Equinox

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s current haikai challenge, autumn / spring equinox. I wrote a haibun. We may have had all summer to enjoy the sun, and now night and day are even. Yet as autumn begins to descend, I can’t help feeling it’s not a fair fight. I keep waiting for…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/24/20)

    9/24/20: a letter a letterwe don’t want to receive…COVID warning #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Mountain Top – HAIKU

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Chrissy Siggee’s latest photo #haiku!

  • Today’s Haiku (September 24, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 何にでも醤油の父や秋の山    齋藤朝比古 nani ni demo shôyu no chichi ya aki no yama             my father uses             soy sauce for everything—             autumn mountain                                                 Asahiko Saito from ‘Ruijitsu’(‘Day After Day’) haiku collection by Asahiko Saito, Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo 2013

  • brown ferns

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: brown fernsand daylily leavesrest on the groundin autumn sunlate September yard Creative Note: Today I reached 50 Posts at Large Print Poems. Hope the site is a helpful resource. It seems to be growing well.

  • Mother Nature ~ haiga

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: I’ve decided to try to create a “haiga sort of image” for Mother Nature, a poem inspired by Catrin Welz-Stein’s Listen, which was posted yesterday as a response to the dVerse prompt Let the Words Be Your Paintbrush! from Lillian at dVerse ~ Poets Pub.  I’ve attempted two different text formats…

  • Equinox tanka

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Fun with Google translate, or the perils of trusting a machine to make poetry. sun moon day nightbalanced the space of a daybefore earth tips spillsrain fills thirsty mouths washingsummer’s dust-dry taste away gives this (inaccurate) French translation: soleil lune jour nuitéquilibré l’espace d’une journéeavant que la terre ne…