Originally posted on Ontheland: This week, for the Haikai Challenge, Frank Tassone presents ‘whitebait’, a traditional Japanese spring ‘kigo’ (haiku season word). As well, Frank reminds us that we are in the Christian season of Lent, a period of reflection and restraint in which eating fish sometimes plays a role. Christian symbols and practices are…

Originally posted on Michael Rehling: open letter to basho hey. just asking for everyone i guess but what is a haiku. you seemed to know but i was three hundred years late to your party in the north country. i hate the whole time travel ban you know. i want to ask you if so…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A haibun quadrille for the dverse prompt. And more dandelions. Blue spikes of muscari fade, violets wilt. Dandelions crowd the meadow with their yellow sun-faces. Clover pink and purple vetch will follow then poppy red at the fields’ edge. The wheel revolves, blue returns in the over-arching winter sky.…

#Haiku Happenings #2: Mark M. Redfearn’s latest haiku! erased by the wind:   the shriek of a mourning dove   finding her dead mate — Read on markmredfearn.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/5989/

Originally posted on Project words: ? another long night knowing what I’d rather not ?

Originally posted on the other bunny: Morning. Wrapped in a wool cardigan. Parsley cold. My feet green with someone else’s dream. I curl the grass between my toes. Walk around Battlefield – nothing happening – nothing happens. Nothing to report. A glass of orange. another school shooting I add lentils to the shopping list ?…