Originally posted on Ada's Poetry Alcove (2): COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 196, #THEMEPROMPT My father introduced me to the constellations as a child.  We would first look for the milky way and then start finding the summer constellations.  Of all my siblings I was the only one really interested.  Even with…

#Haiku Happenings #3: Mark Redfearn’s latest haiku! September twilight—   the postman skips my mailbox   but fills my neighbor’s. Mark M. Redfearn

Originally posted on SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED: Even when he steps outside into bright sunshinethere’s still plenty of darkness —————[|||]—————RDP Saturday ~ DARKNESS ~———[||]———

Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s current haikai challenge, autumn / spring equinox. I wrote a haibun. We may have had all summer to enjoy the sun, and now night and day are even. Yet as autumn begins to descend, I can’t help feeling it’s not a fair fight. I keep waiting for…

#Haiku Happenings #3: Chrissy Siggee’s latest photo #haiku!

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 何にでも醤油の父や秋の山　　　　齋藤朝比古 nani ni demo shôyu no chichi ya aki no yama             my father uses             soy sauce for everything—             autumn mountain                                                 Asahiko Saito from ‘Ruijitsu’(‘Day After Day’) haiku collection by Asahiko Saito, Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo 2013