Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 揚雲雀空のまん中ここよここよ　　　正木ゆう子 agehibari sora no mannaka koko yo koko yo             skylark up in the air             here is the center of the sky!             here it is!                                                 Yuko Masaki from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: flat sea— the sail swollen with light © Francesco Palladino (Italy) What I enjoy most about this haiku is the mixture of serenity and awe one feels while reading it.  With the first line, we have a calm sea (emphasized by the dash). Seeing a calm sea, or a flat…

Originally posted on Ontheland: who is it? who thirsts for all this these transient things that bind the spirit? Take me to the sky wrap me in music, the gentle silence of dawn false spring? it’s the fire of life the roar of the sea ©️2018 Ontheland ~ Today I respond to Carpe Diem #1391:…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Posting this one a little late. ? Spring, the vernal equinox, and the words of Yeats’s Irish airman come to me: ‘in balance with this life, this death’. The circle is eternal, but constantly renewed, never the same, and the lives that turn with it share only a few…

#Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!

Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * spice in my spring soup bird chatter * unknown bird singing spring today first leaves * for March Prompt #22 NaHaiWriMo 3-22-201 * Angie Werren March 22 — bird *

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu supper late his temper can’t make the pots boil faster by Irene Golas (Canada), Co-Author Breccia