Month: April 2022

  • Today’s Haiku (April 20, 2022)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): メトロノームのやうな雨音春障子   石井清吾 metoronômu no yô na amaoto haru-shôji ??????????? sound of rain ??????????? like a metronome ??????????? spring paper screen ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Seigo Ishii from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

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    Originally posted on The Lotus: letting go the string at the command of the kite – the Easter weekend

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/20/22)

    4/20/22: fruit-bearing tree a barrenapple treespring gust #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #napowrimo2022 #glopowrimo2022 #npm2022

  • English-Language Haiku Competitions

    English-Language Haiku Competitions

    Originally posted on Gregory Piko: In recent months, one of my haiku received an Honourable Mention in a Croatian haiku competition while another received an Honourable Mention in an Irish contest. With a number of countries now running competitions for haiku written in English, I thought it might be helpful to provide links to various…

  • It’s Beer Thirty Somewhere

    Originally posted on Heed not Steve: windy afternoon –two solo cups blow throughthe parking lot —— © Steve Mitchell 2022 

  • CH Dreams – old silk cotton

    Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: by Dr Brijesh Raj MiasMa sunrise to moonsetthe old silk cottonaburst with dreams The tectonic shift to nightmare is the rancidness of a marriage gone bad. Guided to the big city with filmy delusions, she is wed as per norms to an older gent of insatiable appetites and a pathologically…

  • Mythic Menagerie

    The last traces of blue sky shrink away. A mass of moist gray swells in its place. Still, the budding maple leaves on the trees across the street reflect the golden hue of setting sun. For a moment. across this mad inscape purple tigers for dVerse Poets’ Poetics: Naming the Rose (pubtended by Merril Smith).…

  • “even…” a #tanka (4/19/22)

    4/19/22: abandoned even a lifetime later this ache “…why did you abandon me?” #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#napowrimo2022#glopowrimo2022#npm2022