Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: roses by the windowfill with sunlightnew morning https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/rose-orange-flowers-flower-68681.jpeg Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-59182.jpeg Photo by Mota Junior on Pexels.com https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/flower-15.jpg Orange and Pink Roses by Ida Waugh, courtesy of Reusable Art. https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/rose-yonge.jpg Pink Rose Drawing is courtesy of Reusable Art. https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-209004.jpeg Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: gulls liftingfrom the sandcorn an inch tall Published in?SMILE?(2009; 2010) and?BELL’S LETTERS POET?(2010). https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-69344.jpeg Photo by Amar Saleem on Pexels.com https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-133615.jpeg Photo by Anthony on Pexels.com https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-6479567.jpeg Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/pexels-photo-5820307.jpeg Photo by Nico Becker on Pexels.com

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 男一匹鯖一匹の青さかな　　　古舘曹人 otoko ippiki saba ippiki no aosa kana ??????????? one man ??????????? and one mackerel… ??????????? the blue ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Sojin Furudate from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog:     Memorial Service dark winter sky mourners approach in single file   memorial service — work on the left family on the right   slide show a handsome young soldier with the same nose   eulogy — his only son  tests the mic   ending the moment…