#Haiku Happenings #5: Barbara Kaufman’s haiku wins the Ito en Haikuvcontest’s 2017 silver prize!

#Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ second #renga soliloquy for my current #haikai challenge! drill? (renga series) east and west windows will never meet yet they are unlikely partners allowing the watcher views of the great freeze and slow melt of snow art or ice plowed into piles in the street – the watcher thinks ‘spring’ especially…

Originally posted on Ontheland: Early March winds cleaned off the porch last night…threw the empty greenhouse into the yard. Now it lies on its side pinned…kept in place. Spring’s rival roams dashing hopes of early thaw hurling gusts of chill ~ ©️2018 Ontheland The greenhouse event was a potential haiku that I almost bypassed. Frank…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A tanka for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge—spring gusts, wild north-easter. ? North wind roars with ice in its voice cracking. The words, I remember, all those times of grieving.

#Haiku Happenings #16: Jules’ latest #renga soliloquy for my current #haikai challenge! debouch (renga, pi ku, Sedoka) from what small valley raced and roared the screaming air? sixty mile hour winds bending tree branches like twigs… finally to settle down allowing a break showing pastel pink clouds on the west horizon * emerging with endless…