Originally posted on haiku tree: the sound of rain just you and me no words ?

Originally posted on Ontheland: winter grey facing emptiness with oven fries . . ©️2019 Ontheland

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/tulips.jpg My parents both had January birthdays. Many years since their passings, yet I am aware of their love in a simple way. My mother lived many years beyond my father’s death. She volunteered at a nursing home and taught English at a church to people new to…

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . New Year’s sorrow our helpless our hopeless wrath told in the streets ? ? ? ? .

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: from our bed we see the cat glide by with its periscope tail —- © Steve Mitchell 2020

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 靴大き若き賀客の来て居たり　　能村登四郎 kutsu ôki wakaki gakyaku no kiteitari big shoes of a young visitor for New Year’s greeting                                                 Toshiro Nomura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: February 2015, my sister, at 27, passed away from cancer. December 2019 my mother was diagnosed with cancer. The haiku below is a memory of mine from my first day of school. I remember crying as my mother left me to the care of the teacher, and I remember…