Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: 2022 is the traditional Chinese Year of Tiger. With the first two poems that follow, I sincerely wish the haiku lovers from Japan and all over the world an energetic and vigorous new year! hatsumode making wishes on new year’s day 初詣 願い事をする 元旦 tiger’s howl wind whistling…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: asleep with ease I become a butterfly by David McKee (USA) the river knows the way: Haiku Dubuque, 2010

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: winter sleepthe ghosts of Christmas pastall around me *** treacherous moonwarming my feetat a cherry pit pillow Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo https://haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue73.pdf

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: wolf moonwe drink dad’s whiskey at the grave     by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA) failed haiku, Winter Issue, 73, January 2022

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 海へ押す暗き力の冬の川　　村上鞆彦 umi e osu kuraki chikara no fuyu no kawa ??????????? the dark power ??????????? pushing to the sea ??????????? the winter river ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Tomohiko Murakami from “Chijitsu no Kishi” (Shore on Slow Day), haiku collection of Tomohiko Murakami, Furansudo, Tokyo 2015

Originally posted on weird laburnum: cast iron skyusing my notebookas a homicide detective ————————– Her muskroot scentI orderedthe X-ray glasses ——————– water in Zero-Gthe ways to disambiguatethirst ——————– Wow! signalmouth parts of the aphidon this planet Patrick Sweeney