Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s latest haikai challenge. This one was difficult for me. We waited for spring. February was too cold. Love was not coming. But look! Pink as sun’s first rays, Cherry trees in bloom, hope stays.

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: A rainbow is the marriage of sunlight and rain. When kissed by a raindrop, a beam of white light disperses, in a similar way to light through a glass prism, into the colours at the ends of the visible light spectrum. We are taught about optical phenomena in…

Originally posted on wordshophop: I had been practicing my django fontina for almost a year. There was something about being somewhere or nowhere and dropping the postcard poem addressed to someone I never knew. It started in the summer after my third grade when I entered my name in a postcard pyramid scheme. It was…

#Haiku Happenings #6: The AHA Autumn Haiga Kukai: seasonal results features comments by judge Ron Moss! Australian Haiku Society First Place laid to rest her body sinking into stone Quendryth Young This is an evocative haiku that struck me on the very first reading. The art of linking to an image works best if it…

Originally posted on Ontheland: the cherry tree waits gnarled limbs breathe in April mist anticipating spring splendour that brings the bees first the leaves then blossom clouds ©️2018 OnthelandA tanka in response to Haikai Challenge #26 First [Cherry] Blossoms. I have always enjoyed blossoms when they appear but never before had I wondered when they…

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: Two years ago, Container‘s Jenni B. Baker expressed her interest in what she calls poetry intersections: I like to take things . . . and ask myself not “How can I make a poem about that?” but “How can I make that a poem?” What would it look…