Month: April 2021

  • Failed Haiku, issue 64

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: My work in this wonderful issue! Parallel Haiku late at night…………………………………………………. morning seamy head filled …………………………………………………. the waves, a mantrawith strange dreams …………………………………………………. erasing thoughts Will the night so many linesin the sandwill the night be gentle? the grey windcurls the seawill the tide be kind? a shower of…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 2, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ふるさとの春暁にある厨かな   中村草田男 furusato no shungyô ni aru kuriya kana ??????????? hometown… ??????????? the kitchen ??????????? in the spring dawn ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Kusatao Nakamura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Kusatao Nakamura ?(1901-1983)

  • Originally posted on weird laburnum: nostalgic viewthe collapse of the wave function Adam T. Bogar

  • Perilous Introductions: A deranged #haibun #nationalpoetrymonth

    falling stars all we inherit is the wind Do you imagine that you know me? Oh, you do, you do. Heard all of my stories? You’ve heard enough, I’m sure. Just another trickster, right? Stealing the sun from the Great Spirit? Tricking a white man out of his clothes? Gambling his wife away to his…

  • Today’s Haiku (April 1, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 灯されて黙を深むる老桜   上田日差子 tomosarete moda o fukamuru oizakura ??????????? lightened up ??????????? an old cherry tree ??????????? deepens its silence ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Hizashi Ueda from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), May 2018 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

  • Tanka: Soft and Forgiving

    Tanka: Soft and Forgiving

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Trans’ latest #tanka!

  • Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: dusk prayer lit wick crackles in reply

  • “even as…” a #tanka (4/1/21)

    4/1/21: prompt-free even asa cool drizzlefallsmy constant gardinerseeds our property #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2021 #glopowrimo2021 #nationalpoetrymonth