#Haiku Happenings #8: Toni Spencer’s latest #quadrille #haibun for #dversepoets!

Originally posted on Prairie Writers Guild – NW Indiana: the vulture against a solemn sky leaves no shadow brown fields waiting the plow impatient gulls egrets hear the bubbling field wade in Haiku above by Pat Kopanda. Linked to dVerse Open Link Night. Photography below by Frank Hubeny. February ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 無意識の中にもぐつてをる田螺　　高橋将夫 muishiki no naka ni mogutteoru tanishi             hiding deep             inside unconsciousness             a mud snail                                                 Masao Takahashi from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘tanishi’ (mud snail) is a spring kigo.

#Haiku Happenings #5: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! fit to be fried something fishy there in the creeks still muddied flow immature fry group too many heads in a school all smelt; a prize for a plate? not my cup of tea fried fish, pommes de terre frites all for you…

Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s lastest haikai prompt, the kigo was unfamiliar to me: Whitebait (shirauo). It turned out to be a type small, young fish.  Souls are whitebait fish, Lent is time to grow in love And eat fish fillets The ending is a little goofy, but it’s true!