Originally posted on Tidbits by Shannon: #Haiku Happenings #10: Shannon Blood’s latest #haiga! Tidbits by Shannon View original post

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 手套脱ぐ大きな棘に触れたくて　　山岸由佳 shutô nugu ôkina toge ni furetakute             taking off gloves             with a desire to touch             a big thorn                                     Yuka Yamagishi from ‘Mame No Ki,’ (‘Pea Tree) No. 21, May 2017 Issue, Tokyo

Originally posted on haiku tree: 2 a.m. my restless mind wrapped in wind chimes ?

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Frank Tassone’s haikai theme is ‘hawk’ this week. All week… ? Air, ice shard-cold, ripples— hawk passes.

Originally posted on Icebox: Ten more days till the deadline for entries into this year’s Genjuan International Haibun Contest. Details here. The office is usually lenient with entries arriving a few days late. The four judges will read your works without knowing authors’ identities. They will be looking for haikai style, best understood by reading examples.…

Originally posted on Sarah writes poems: I write. My words spill over pages – scrawled words, jotted down hastily; poems pencilled into notebooks; my daily words, sandwiched between first drafts and shopping lists. Endless lists. I write in clinic. I’m not going to sit over a keypad while you talk to me. I write in…

Originally posted on kiwissoar: Spending time waiting is never easy, and I notice the small sounds.  Sounds of water running into the washing machine, Rod shifting his ladder as he paints.  I want to carry on with my painting, but can’t settle.  The hum of the fan becomes a background to this heat, and the…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: icy rain at the bottom of the lake a door to yesterday by Fay Aoyagi  (USA)  ?