Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: checkmate shadows become still on the marble steps © Jacob Salzer (USA) Chrysanthemum, No. 19, April, 2016 (from the book: How Many Become One) Today, we have a special edition, as we have a father and son commentary team—Mark Salzer being the father, and Jacob Salzer being the son. I…

Photo: Greg Lobinski/Creative Commons/Flickr Concluding the 2018 international Women’s Haiku Festival is a haiku by Northern Irish poet Marion Clarke. ticking clock . . . so many things to tell my daughter There is the ticking biological clock that, along with other factors, dictates the reproductive fate of every woman. But there is also the…

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . quiet woods where strangest songs unfurl the slanting light ? ? ? ? .

Originally posted on Icebox: click on the picture to read the poems

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? window box a tiny bird skeleton among the leaves ? © Martha Magenta ? Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, March 28, 2018 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/03/28/haiku-windows-window-box/

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: in the fading night your face was laden with dreams fluttering eyelids the rise and fall of your chest and our curious kisses Kim M. Russell, 2018 Sleeping Beauty – image found on Wikipedia My response to Carpe Diem #1400 The Awakening, a love poem by Rumi In…

Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s very apt challenge to write haikai poetry alluding to the Triduum. I will probably write again about this tomorrow and on Saturday. I shall wash your feet, Taking off all dirt caked on, Come to Me in need.

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: from flesh and blood man to the savior of mankind the Lord has risen ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg Frank J Tassone Haikai Challenge #26 Triduum