Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Don’t miss your chance to begin writing poetry or improve your poetry, get it published, and establish yourself as a well-known writer! My new reference book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing,  contains  hundreds of  haiku, tanka, haibun, haiku sequences, and dozens of other forms, such as sonnets…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 一日の眠き時間よ亀の鳴く　　稲畑汀子 ichinichi no nemuki jikan yo kame no naku ??????????? time of a day ??????????? when one becomes sleepy… ??????????? a tortoise calls ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Teiko Inahata from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Though a tortoise doesn’t sing like a…

Originally posted on Pieces of My Mind: snow over empty bench waiting for sping ©️J. Kleponis, 2021.

Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank’s current haikai challenge, I wrote a haibun about Ash Wednesday. The ashes that are used to mark the foreheads of the faithful, as a sign of repentance, grief yet hope, are the ashes from the burnt palm branches from the previous year’s Palm Sunday. Since Palm Sunday was cancelled…

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: Still Cold melting snow in afternoon sun nights still cold breath in the crisp air fogging my glasses frosted panes see only shadows drifting by waterfowl swimming in ice-jammed river dark shadows stray geese overhead seeking food sparrows at feeder still cold and hungry This solo renga is my response to…