Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. The year begins in darkness, deepening relentlessly, rising like a black tide higher with every turn of the earth, until the solstice, and the tide is halted, ebbs, time hangs in suspense on the horizon’s rim and the sun that rises is the triumph…

Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Manger straw smells sweet Heaven’s choir rehearses Bethlehem’s star ascends Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haiki Challenge.  Frank says: Here in the Northern hemisphere the darkness lengthens and deepens until December 21st. Then the days lengthen. Is that not a sign of hope? What better kigo for this week,…

Haiku Happenings #1 (12/2/19): Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! advent advice (solo renga) not once but twice, sheleft the candles burning, therehouse went up in flames fire department went there twice!leave no candles burning – home when leaving ‘outen’lights and flames, return; then youcan celebrate whole ©JP/dh(True story… I think hubby attended…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): むささびや露天湯更けて湯気もなし　　　井沢正江 musasabi ya rotenyu fukete yuge mo nashi             flying squirrel—             an open-air hot spring at night             without steam                                                 Masae Izawa from “Nihon Dai-Saijiki” (“Japanese Comprehensive Saijiki”), edited by Shuoshi Mizuhara, Shuson Kato, and Kenkichi Yamamoto, published by Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1981

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rereading old love letters the shifting shapes of clouds by Ben Moeller–Gaa (USA) Frogpond, 42:3, 2019

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: family gathers sharing a meal with shared hopes smiles as thanks abound This senryū is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge # 114: Thanksgiving. This also is linked to Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 155 #Theme-Thanksgiving. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Freedom from Want – Norman Rockwell