#Haiku Happenings #3: Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A haibun for Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge. The theme is ‘independence’. It seems as though humanity has had a problem with independent thought since the beginning. In the beginning was the Word, only one, and no one, least of all a creature created to be helpmate to her…

Originally posted on Grahn Song: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/chore.jpg

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 祖母よりも父遠かりし誘蛾灯　　　加藤楸邨 sobo yori mo chichi tôkarishi yûgatô             father was more distant             than grandmother             a light trap for moths                                                             Shuson Kato from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Shuson Kato (1905-1993)  ‘yûgatô’ (a light trap for moths)…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/el-mirage-lake-1998953_1280.jpg heat wavesdistant shimmering miragedancing on hot sand bringing to the deserta distant oasisbrimming with wonder an ocean viewblending of hot and coollight reflections Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1687 Troiku Month Heat Waves Author’s Note: The haiku given to create a Troiku: heat wavesbringing to the desertan ocean view ©…