Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Today’s Haiku (July 31, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 草いきれ鉄材錆びて積まれけり 杉田久女 kusaikire tetsuzai sabite tsumare keri a smell of summer grass iron materials rotten and stuck up Hisajo Sugita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Hisajo Sugita (1890-1946)
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first bloom…
#Haiku Happenings #4: Tia Haynes latest haiku appear in Presence!
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My Daily #Haiku (7/31/18)
7/31/18: surfacing gathering clouds surfacing again that old problem #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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August, 2018
Originally posted on Otata: Click on the link below to read otata 32 (August, 2018) Ξ Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around…
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summer bites
#Haiku Happenings #2: Janice’s latest #haiku!
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7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/
Haiku Happenings #1: Jules’ latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge! creekside, bay or ocean… a twig for a mast a leaf for a sail in a cicada’s eve song summer fades, vacations end becoming treasured memory ©JP/dh via 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/
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“A Nice Game of Chess”: A #dversepoets #quadrille #haibun
White moves King’s pawn to E4. Black answers with Queen’s knight to F6. I process combinations. My opponent runs sub-routines. A flurry of moves. Pawns fall, Bishops pin, Queens clash. Until the puzzle is complete. pale sun afternoon — victory for dVerse Poets Quadrille #61 (pubtended by Mish) …
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Haibun: Ghost Cat
Originally posted on kanzen sakura: The cat in the picture is my boy Sam Cat the Ripper. I had to have him euthanized last October due to a huge tumor growing on his heart. He lived a happy life. This was his favorite place to lie in the yard. A quadrille is a form unique…
