Originally posted on Tao-Talk: She of red-crested head, hungry,dwarfs her cagemate with grace.Queen of woodpeckers visitsthis Christmas morning. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that states, or alludes to, any of the Kigo cited above. Please…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 白鳥の繭のごとくに眠りをり　　吉田千嘉子 hakuchô no mayu no gotoku ni nemuriori ??????????? swans… ??????????? they sleep as though they were ??????????? cocoons ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Chikako Yoshida from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Ontheland: Last night, December 21, 2020, was the night of a rare astronomical event. Some were calling it the ‘Christmas Star’ or ‘Solstice Star’ but neither description is quite right as the ‘Great Conjunction’ refers to the alignment of two planets, Jupiter and Saturn. They were to be bright lights in the…

Originally posted on K.: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/what-shines-s.jpg https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/what-shines-magnetic-s.jpg https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/what-shines-close-up-2s.jpg Perhaps the rain and windstorm of Christmas Eve is a beginning towards washing away the darkness of 2020. Of course, as the Oracle reminds us, it’s never that simple. https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/what-shines-close-up-1s.jpg I was pleased to have 3 pieces selected for The Ephrastic Review’s Christmas day post: Weathering, Our Lady…

Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/img_1890.jpg * early snow turning off the alarm i watch silence * a foot of snow in one black boot the snowman * https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/img_1905-1-1.jpg

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: Christmas Eve – outside the window a pigeon coos —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: Christmas morningpoetry time andnew light grows The Generosity by Luci Shaw – her new book from Paraclete Press in 2020. Haiku by Ellen Grace Olinger