Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: an old basket my wishes  wildflowers    by Maria Concetta Conti (Italy) Otata, 43, July 2019

5/29/20: Meher’s Art Hug #38. The Face of the Buddha two faces within the same photograph Which one is Mara, Buddha? Which one is yours, mine? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 明易く姫が人魚に戻る刻（とき）　　　鷹羽狩行 akeyasuku hime ga ningyo ni modoru toki             early dawn             the time when a princess             returns to a mermaid                                                 Shugyo Takaha from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: sun sinks on a sea of stalks and pale-faced marguerites still as becalmed stars and even the banners of fescue hang limp in the no breeze

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: ice cream truck — they abandon their castle to the tide Published in Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, May 2020. *    *    *    *

Originally posted on Ontheland: heat wave a sea of dandelions surging to white caps . . ©️2020 Ontheland

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Food for Thought My two young daughters and I are at the grocery checkout. Ahead is a homeless woman of indeterminate age, a fixture in the neighborhood for years. Stooped, hair in disarray, teeth in need of more than a good brushing, she is wearing multiple layers of…