Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 考える人あり扇風機のうしろ　　　木割大雄 kangaeru hito ari senpûki no ushiro             there is the Thinker             behind             an electric fan                                                 Daiyu Kiwari from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), February  2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Stine Writing: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/pexels-photo-570041-1.jpeg Written for Frank Tassone’s Challenge: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/07/18/haikai-challenge-148-7-18-20-summer-meadow-natsuno-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ Friends A walk, a story, a snicker, and a sob. Not hand in hand but hearts connected. Sounds, smells, sights all?provoke?new memories, recall past, fond reminders.? Walking on the path?Best friends remember the days?Nothing can compare? A memory, an idea, silence, and tears.…

Originally posted on the other bunny: Or not. swansong no legendary descending octave Helen Buckingham

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. Yesterday was the first day this summer the thermometre topped 100°F (38°C°) but the flowers are still blooming. ? after hay-making chicory and cats’ ears scatter colour across the ocean green fragments of sky drops of sunlight ? ?

#Haiku Happenings #4: Jules’ latest poetic #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! Open To Interpretations(haibun) To you I have become my wordsSharing some darker moments,Humor, retrospect, memoir…But mostly, perhaps more than romantic drivel –Inhaling new meanings, forms, symbols Loving the life, owning authorshipEvery word birthed, growing into sentencesParagraphs of compromise and promise. I can have…