Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: counting stars so many things I should be doing

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: Delighted to see my #haibun “The Path” included in Califragile (July 23, 2019) https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/65321955_2998608436846410_5565276561818517504_o.jpg Many thanks to the editor Wren Tuatha! Originally In Blue Fifth Review, Broadside #44 Fall 2016 with the beautiful painting below by Maria Pierides https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/the-path.jpeg In addition, full text here

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: winter solitude… the war veteran turns back the clock Highly Commended in the Australian Haiku Society Winter Solstice 2019 Haiga Kukai for the Non-Seasonal Haiga category.

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 梅干して人は日陰にかくれけり　　　中村汀女 ume hoshite hito wa hikage ni kakurekeri             drying plums             she retreats herself             in the shade                                                 Teijo Nakamura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Teijo Nakamura (1900-1988)   ‘ume hosu’ (drying plums) is a summer kigo

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: As the hills slept the city awakened, its little fires scattered like stardust over the breasts of the earth.

Originally posted on Grahn Song: mind games . . .playing catch with the sonI never had