#Haiku Happenings #8: Al Gallia’s latest #haibun! Searching for Serendipity May, 2019. My wife and I are headed north on US191 in southeastern Utah toward Moab and Salt Lake City. The two-lane highway leads us over the high plains desert plateau and through gorgeous scenery of red rock, pinyon pines, junipers, purple sage, and blackbrush.…

Originally posted on William Michaelian: It can happen any time — one instant you’re in the warm-water wash, and the next you’re a sheet on the line. four hands two cups of tea table a dream pot a bouquet memory For Robert, Mark, and Stanley, June 29, 2019

Originally posted on weird laburnum: the cycle will turn structurally lower yields flood the system with liquidity the stream of future the cycle will turn higher yields undermine responses to sluggish growth depreciations heighten risk the cycle will turn complex instruments are the heart in mismatches obligations are longer term the cycle will turn a…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: An achievement worth celebrating, that giant step, the impossible dream realised. Yet closer to my heart is that first step on the trail of tears, the bamboo raft setting out across the world ocean of a flat earth, the hundred mile walk across a desert carrying a sick child,…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 高気圧居座つてゐる房バナナ　　すずきみのる kôkiatsu isuwatteiru fusa banana             high air pressure             lingers             a bunch of bananas                                                             Minoru Suzuki from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #393 11/2/2014  Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com