Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Midsummer Rains   (a Haibun) During my teens, I worked for five summers on my uncle’s 100-acre Pennsylvania dairy farm. I loved being able to drive the tractors, long before I was old enough to drive a car. In mid-July we would make our second cutting of hay. We always tried…

Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #39 – Midsummer Rain Write your choice of a Haiku – Senryu – Haibun – Tanka – Haiga – Renga droplets of moisture kissing the earth of nature blooms unique beauty Photo Credit:  PEXELS

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: welcome raindrops fall midsummer rain brings relief dusty sparrows bathe Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #38: midsummer rain Image source: Wikimedia Commons (edited here)

Originally posted on mishunderstood: ? For many years, I worked on a First Nations reserve. It was part of my job to become familiar with some of the Ojibway language and culture and to promote it within a daycare setting. Native American customs and spirituality have always intrigued me and still do. The legends and…

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: When the whole world measured time in light and dark, descent and climb, civilisation was still new my child, an infant just like you. One drab June, we wandered ancient grounds, round rain-soaked prehistoric mounds, counting a nursery rhyme of stones. We imagined thousands of dawns and shadows…

Originally posted on haiku tree: sheets of rain pound the roof the cat yawns ?