Month: May 2021

  • World Haiku Series 2020 (41) Haiku by Isabella Kramer

    Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: knowing the way the old Bedouin draws lines into the desert sand ? published on Asahi Haikuist Network 09-18-20 道を知っている 年取ったベドウィンは砂漠の砂に線を引く lost and found the raven on my shoulder no longer a stranger ? first published on hedgerow: a journal of small poems #132 行方不明になり見つかった 私の肩のカラス もう他人ではない not a…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/4/21)

    5/4/21: driftwood storm surge…driftwood drawn inon the tide #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haibun: Braiding Stories

    Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: Among the flowers and grasses, tiny yellow-and-brown things with wings land and take off, take off and land. Should I be worried that I do not know their names? I lift one of the things from a flower stained with its excrement—so small to have made such a big…

  • Today’s Haiku (May 2, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 春深くエゴン・シーレの男女かな   飯島晴子 haru fukaku egon shiire no danjo kana ??????????? deep spring… ??????????? a man and a woman ??????????? by Egon Schiele ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Haruko Iijima from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Haruko Iijima (1921-2000)? Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is an…

  • brass bell: a haiku journal: edible haiku

    Originally posted on word pond: low slung river thoughts of home and lemon trout Alan Summers Source: brass bell: a haiku journal: edible haiku

  • Scattered and Gathered

    Too many voices. Too few of them my own. The drumbeat noise of Twitter and its ever-inciting FOMA. The incessant cymbols of Google-Classroom work, with its screens of tiled avatars and silent answers. The base-boom of volunteering demands. Somehow the path of poetry ended under windblown sand. I stumbled into the sandstorm, fingers clenching the…