Month: June 2021

  • samidare ~ a haiku

    Originally posted on Mindfills: midsummer rain leaving unquenched earth’s desire steaming, wanting more ***Mindfills forFrank Tassone’s Haikai challenge – samidare (midsummer rain)

  • Long-drawn summer months

    Long-drawn summer months

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (6/28/21): Eugenia’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge! Poesy Perspectives sultry raucous days breed long panting summer nights dew drops loitering #Haikai Challenge #195-197 (Trifecta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga Challenge number:DateKigo#1956/12/21midsummer rain (samidare)#1966/19/21summer moon (natsu no tsuki) / Strawberry Supermoon#1976/26/21smoldering hot (moyuru) Prompt – Write the haikai poem of…

  • “tangled sheets…” a #tanka/#kyoka (6/27/21)

    6/27/21: unprompted tangled sheetsthe “Summer of 69” fora school year’s endno one to hearour muffled cries #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tanka: Red Rose

    Tanka: Red Rose

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Trans’ latest #tanka!

  • Today’s Haiku (June 27, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 割箸を祭の端に捨てにけり   小野あらた waribashi o matsuri no hashi ni sutenikeri ??????????? disposable chopsticks ??????????? I throw them at the edge ??????????? of the festival ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Arata Ono from Haiku-kai (Haiku World), July 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • nd 6.27 perch? 2p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Jules’ latest haiku #sequence for my current #Haikai Challenge! perch? midsummer rain blocks bloodshot moon sailor plans *** chip away skies’ strawberry light nets ready? *** I should go from the smoldering tangled sheets *** and yet, I stay… as you fish for endearments *** the drawn line I leave to bait…

  • On Any Given Day

    Somewhere, a white butterfly floats above greenery in garden beds. A neighbor’s dog barks at whatever triggered it. Afternoon birds continue their tweets and chirps, hidden among a canopy of maple leaves Somewhere, boughs sway and leves rustle. A chartered jet flies overhead. Sunlight brightens on the backyard’s mix of freshly mowed grass and crabgrass.…

  • kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku 2021

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: my haiku in the first preprint of kontinuum: kortárs haiku_contemporary haiku. late-night train the mother’s lullaby for everyone https://haikukontinuum.com/preprint/