Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): So peacefulSerene, invitingBeware: sharks ** Colleen is back and so is her weekly poetry challenge! This week is a poet’s choice week. I chose to do a haiku with a 3/5/3 structure. Or is it a senryu? I’ll let you decide…

#Haiku Happenings #1 (1/19/21): Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #Haikai Challenge! all hands united our justice stable?or is it up for grabs – wethe people must choose then we must act, each for allprotect, honor, and respect the whole blue planetmust abhor violence andwork towards healing ©JP/dh nd 1.19 all hands united &…

Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: My husband and I are not big fans of birthdays. While we’re grateful to have lived well into our seventh decade, birthdays are really, on an unconscious level, the birth trauma all over again. Few of us have felt welcomed into the world. Most of us, as we…

Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: TANKA The moon floats on wisps Of cloud that extend outward Tendrils of white fire Burn up in the universe– Gauzy ghosts of nothingness. ——– Shooting star crosses Upended bowl of blue night Imagination Fires up with excited gaze! A moment– and all is gone. _______ (and one…

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: poet moon – how can he write all full of wine —- © Steve Mitchell 2021

Originally posted on the other bunny: Hidden eyes discern Nostrils better interpret Human decay Beyond the quarry’s boulders, Heavy as any burden, Trees weed upward, all gnarled, Hollow knot holes filled with darkness, Open mouths forever silently screaming, Shadows harboring sentient eyes, Glowing gold . . . Ghosts float past an autumn-tainted moon. Distant Mack…