Originally posted on Mindfills: harvest moon shrouding the mind’s haunted unborn realms ~ bliss of the nadir *** Mindfills of s.s. *** For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge #163 – nochi no tsuki – Blue Hunter’s moon GoDogGo Cafe’s – reminder for submissions for – Through the looking glass – reflecting on madness and chaos within

Originally posted on anotherKate: In response to Frank’s Haikai challenge, my first tanka (hope I got the form right): As the sun rises a million cicadas wake, and start drumming their fifteen-hour crescendo to celebrate the solstice and a haiku: The longest day fits neatly with the shortest night. How well organised!

Originally posted on Mindfills: darkness of white lies like slithering silver bass in midnight waters *** Mindfills s.s. for Frank Tassone’s #162 suzuki (sea bass). I drive a sea bass! 😉

Originally posted on Tao Talk: She of red-crested head, hungry,dwarfs her cagemate with grace.Queen of woodpeckers visitsthis Christmas morning. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that states, or alludes to, any of the Kigo cited above.…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白鳥の繭のごとくに眠りをり　　吉田千嘉子 hakuchô no mayu no gotoku ni nemuriori ??????????? swans… ??????????? they sleep as though they were ??????????? cocoons ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Chikako Yoshida from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo