Originally posted on Starlight and Moonbeams: https://frankjtassone.com/2020/05/03/haikai-challenge-5-3-20-flower-moon-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ May! The time of flowers (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), the beginning of summer by the Traditional reckoning, a Marion month according to the Roman Catholic Church, #NaTankaMo: the fifth month of the year has a lot going on! When the full Moon appears this month, it will…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 原爆ドーム仔雀くぐり抜けにけり　　草間時彦 genbakudômu kosuzume kuguri nukenikeri             Hiroshima Dome             a young sparrow             passes under it                                                 Tokihiko Kusama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Tokihiko Kusama (1920-2003)　‘baby (or ‘young’) sparrow’ is a spring kigo.

Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: You are still sleeping lashes shadowed on your cheek lips moving slightly as your chest rises and falls sunlight dappling tanned skin

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: fog on the poppies– childhood home  by Angiola Inglese (Italy) The Mainichi, 27:2, 2019

#Haiku Happenings #5: Colleen M. Chesebro’s latest #haibun! “The Palo Verde Weeps” #Haibun May 8, 2020 by Colleen M. Chesebro I always love the beginning of the month’s poetry challenge because poets choose a form and write about the things that mean the most to them. As the number of coronavirus infections and deaths continues…