Originally posted on Innerdialects: haibun Jia’s lemon tea is red with leaf brew. It is like her : all pressured to be a safe mom. Her 2 year old isn’t speaking yet, she worries. (We meet for the first time through a mutual friend. The child has a face like a waiting dawn: fascinated I…

Originally posted on Scrambled, Not Fried: It’s Haibun Monday again, and American Haikai Master Frank J Tassone asks us to join him at the dVerse Poets Pub and create/share a Haibun (prose/haiku combo) incorporating some reference to ‘Pressure’… ———[||]——— Direct Pressure He tries to remember his training, even though it’s probably already too late. He…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For the dverse prompt. I have felt the weight of water, of clouds full of rain, of night sky, starless, black with cloud, of aches in the heart and the head and the bones, of all that we’ve lost, never had, still to do, the weight of the problems…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: cipressicontinuo a scriveredi nuvole in viaggio cypressesI keep on writingof traveling clouds © A.M. Foto A.M.

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: winter in its talons the eagle flies into the dawning sun

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蛇出でてすぐに女人に会ひにけり　　橋本多佳子 hebi idete suguni nyonin ni ainikeri ??????????? a snake out of a hole ??????????? immediately it meets ??????????? a woman ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Takako Hashimoto? from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:?? Takako Hashimoto (1899-1963) “hebi ana o deru” (a snake…