Author: Frank J. Tassone
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#Haikai Challenge #125 (2/8/20): hawk (taka) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Thank you, haijin, for honoring Martha Magenta with your #haikai! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Pat R2. Jane Dougherty3. Shaun Jex 4. Eugenia5. Linda Lee Lyberg6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 7. Janice8. Kim Whysall-Hammond (England) Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: It may be spring, according to the Lunar…
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From The Archive #2: Haibun by Angelee Deodhar
Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Optical Illusion My paternal grandmother was a rich, generous, large hearted lady and the mother of many sons and well regarded in our village. Since she died when I was only two years old I never knew her. Her equally philanthropic sons decided to give…
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Daily Haiku: Feb. 8, 2020
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: All Souls Day the pauper’s grave washed clean by rain by John J. Dunphy (USA) Acorn, #14, 2005
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#Haiku Happenings #7: Scott Metz presents a #monoku by Kemar Cummings!
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These mortal choices: a #Writephoto #TankaProse
A fresh bank of cumulus clouds floats across the sky. The bare maple branches atop the trees in the front yard gently sway in the light breeze. The near-midafternoon sun casts their pale shadows across neighbors’ houses like so much shadow theater. Except for the cold, it’s a day to visit their grave. Spring with…
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Dave Read Poetry
#Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Read’s #tanka appears in Bamboo Hut! too lazy to clean the house for guests I polish my social smile Bamboo Hut Winter 2020 Dave Read Poetry
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Kat Lehmann (U.S.A.)
Originally posted on Harusame: vernal equinox the forest swallows its mountain Comment: a haiku with classic tones and a harmonizing, pleasant juxtaposition (torihayashi 取はやし). In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal or spring equinox (shunbun 春分) falls on March 20-21, gradually bringing longer and sunnier days. Moreover, the trees grow new leaves and life explodes with…
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Sunday in Spring
Originally posted on Kim Whysall-Hammond (The Cheesesellers Wife): Two fields over, Rooks argue a raucous parley that goes on and on and on while other birds sing prettily Here in the meadow we have knelt as if worshipping to peer at tiny pink blooms wobbling on a frail stem On the way home we walk…
