Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank’s current haikai challenge, I wrote a haibun about Ash Wednesday. The ashes that are used to mark the foreheads of the faithful, as a sign of repentance, grief yet hope, are the ashes from the burnt palm branches from the previous year’s Palm Sunday. Since Palm Sunday was cancelled…

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: Still Cold melting snow in afternoon sun nights still cold breath in the crisp air fogging my glasses frosted panes see only shadows drifting by waterfowl swimming in ice-jammed river dark shadows stray geese overhead seeking food sparrows at feeder still cold and hungry This solo renga is my response to…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: cloud of starlings curved wing edge to the moon

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: wedding morning last night’s rain shakes from the trees        by Laurie D. Morrissey (USA) Presence, #68, 2020

Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: a wheelbarrowfull of rainwatermorning mirror

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: 19 February 2021my signature haiku # 38This Friday Feature presents?Hifsa Ashraf I’ve been reading Hifsa’s haikai in journals and her prize winning poems in contests. Most promising haijin from Pakistan, I wish her the very best, always._()_ Over to Hifsa: patriarchal shadow overstepping my double helixFrom my haiku book…