Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: a good morningand especially good yeardaylilies and hosta The perennials are a wonderful source of inspiration, because of course the years contain challenging times too. This year, with our long rainy cool Spring, some farmers were not able to plant their fields. So we see some fallow fields…

Originally posted on the other bunny: i tell her i had a dream about her – we were in a scottish hotel, on the run for some unknown crime. she says she wishes it was real. on the window with the ocean view birdshit Stephen Toft

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? We took a picnic across the meadow, stepping carefully to avoid the cracked earth and the vole tunnels, to our picnic table beneath the big plum tree. We ate pan bagnat, plums sun-hot from the trees, and the first blackberries. We listened to a red kite screaming at…

Originally posted on My Haiku Musings: cloudy sky– dropping slowly over the horizon an orange smudge ? ? ? ?

Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Read’s haiku appears in Under the Basho! spring dreams …last year’s butterflies sewn into her eyelids  Under the Basho, 2018

Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: Today, I treated myself to a mani-pedi at the Mall across the street. As the lady started working on my neglected feet, I took out my beads and relaxed and chanted my mantra silently. Usually one lady takes care of my feet and later I move to a…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rows of crows on the telephone wires beauty salon gossip   by Sharon Rhutasel-Jones (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 42:2, 2019