Month: January 2021

  • #Haikai Challenge 174: Justice

    Originally posted on Tao Talk: Traitor Winter silhouette swings from a creaking rope asa blood red sun sets.     image link here Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says:Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to justice.

  • gogyohka for justice

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s challenge. I watch the trumps leave for pastures newand think justice would be better servedIf to cross the White House lawnshe were to wear flat clumpy shoesand he the six inch stiletto heels.

  • “early morning mass…” a #tanka (1/20/21)

    1/20/21: INSPIRATION: a sympathetic character in the wind early morning massa humble procession toinaugurationwho among us doesn’t needto heed a call for unity? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: Jan. 20, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: a war veteran with eyes closed leaf viewing   by Elmedin Kadric (Sweden) The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XXII, No. 2, June 2020

  • Today’s Haiku (January 20, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 鴛鴦の沓波にかくるることもあり  山口青邨 oshi no kutsu nami ni kakururu koto mo ari ??????????? mandarin ducks             sometimes their shoes ??????????? under the waves ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Seison Yamaguchi from “Haiku Saijiki” electronic version edited by Kadokawa Shoten, published by Kodansha Sophia Shuppan, Tokyo, Japan, 2018 Fay’s Note:? Seison Yamaguchi…

  • haiku: broken words…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . broken words tattered on empty posts our stranger-friends .

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/20/21)

    1/20/21: coat and ice changingthe coat of arms…inauguration Winter chilla squirrel skiddingon black ice #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tanka for looking ahead

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Ingrid is running a tanka challenge over at EIF. You have six days to enter! still the sky fillswater-grey sleet-chill overfurrowed earth wavesheavy clay on my bootsreminds me of spring sowing