Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: rotting peaches to be discarded sooner than later

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 宝物みな身につけし冬の虫　　こしのゆみこ takaramono mina mi ni tsukeshi fuyu no mushi ??????????? wearing everything ??????????? it treasures… ??????????? winter insect ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Yumiko Koshino from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: lockdown blues…waiting for the red lipstickto arrive.Inspired by @MariaPierides’s Lipstick project

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Four Seasons of Sun spring sun for her he plucks flowers from a neighbor’s garden   summer sun his pregnant wife’s lips dripping tomato   autumn sun trying to brush the burrs from her long brown hair   winter sun the diamond he bought her after his affair…

Originally posted on anotherKate: For Frank’s Haikai Challenge #172 (1/3/21): first sun (hatsuhi): Light pours from the sky, flooding the land, and rising to come flowing through the window, drowning my dreams in a blaze of light and heat. ?