Month: June 2022

  • Where the light draws no shadows

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Rajani Radhakrishnan’s latest #haibun!

  • 3 Tanka: June 15, 2022

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: sudden chill a dragonfly skip jives with its reflection . . . when did you stop finding us amazing by Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) Honorable Mention, Sanford Goldstein Competition 2019 Tanka Society of America     family photo: my father’s father before the booze before the…

  • Haibun for an encounter

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Before it got too hot, I took the dogs out for a walk around the newly mown meadows. Yesterday our walk was curtailed because Trixie followed us and a cat in a field is fair game as far as dogs are concerned. The day before we had to double…

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/15/22)

    6/15/22: ranch real scorcherdrowning in ranch dressinga fresh salad #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haibun for wild maps

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Paul Brookes’ 30DayWild challenge. Haibun for wild maps These fields are veined with running feet, the hooved and the padded, the broad forked twig-feet of pheasants. Through the long grass they run, tunnelled through bramble, broadening to the crushed stalks of temporary resting places. River banks are scored…

  • book reviews

    Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: book reviewsnews about writersI have read for years by Ellen Grace Olinger The new Modern Haiku arrived yesterday.

  • Today’s Haiku (June 15, 2022)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ゴキブリが邪馬台国を探査中  豊里友行  gokiburi ga yamataikoku o tansaku-chû ??????????? cockroach… ??????????? it is searching for ??????????? the Kingdom of Yamatai ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tomoyuki Toyozato from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, August 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? “cockroach” is a summer kigo.? The Kingdom of…

  • In Absentia Ponderings

    A sweltering heat arises. The muffled hum of window-unit air conditioners from other classrooms penetrates the relative silence of the one in which I currently sit. Lights and AC off: I have need of neither, yet. The intricacies of this profound writer’s block continue to challenge me. True, the competing concerns of work and volunteering…