Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? Published in Gusts 31 (Spring/Summer 2020), Tanka Canada ? Three tanka written and read by Mary Kendall (click on link): ? ? how do I tell you about the darkness                              that embraces me,     uninvited     unwanted   ?           ~…

Originally posted on kanzen sakura: An American Sentence for Posted Positive Poetry. the American Sentence was created by Allen Ginsberg because he couldn’t follow the rules for proper classic haiku. It must be a complete sentence and exactly 17 syllables. My Anchor “When someone you love becomes a memory…that memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown…

Originally posted on Ontheland: in the silence of our shallow breath the broad wings of a crow soaring across the sky I wave hello . . ©️2020 Ontheland

#Haiku Happenings #3: Rajani’s latest poetic #haibun!

Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: your teeth sink into the powdered sugar donut it dusts your black shirt snow still caps the mountaintops faintly visible at dawn . sugar on your lip I remember the sweetness well after dinner . honey in green tea steam rises from the surface faint smile on your lips leaning against…

Originally posted on haiku tree: white flowers two fly away butterflies ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夜は城と高さを競ひ白木蓮　　鶴岡加苗 yo wa shiro to takasa o kisoi hakumokuren at night it competes with a castle which is taller white magnolia                                                             Kanae Tsuruoka from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo