Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? through the rain steely stair rods a veil the hedge flutters soft and brown as old leaves as full nests and singing birds

Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Written In Response To: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #88 (6/1/19): summer-like (natsumeku) – This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to summer-like (natsumeku) conditions (weather, activities, etc.) the scent of jasmine sun’s warmth penetrates body summer in the heart…

Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: sunset dragging my shadow back home © Agus Maulana Sunjaya (Indonesia) Akitsu Quarterly, Fall issue, 2018 A very melancholic haiku that immediately suggests the image of a homecoming in which the shadow, particularly long in the sunset, seems to weigh down the steps of the poet. But the shadow, understood…

Originally posted on Ontheland: rain days – in the trough of a wave shrouded by mist life swells toward sunshine on the crest . . ©️2019 Ontheland

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: blue sky and treeson the birch tree branchblue jay https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/blue_jay__cyanocitta_cristata.jpg Blue Jay is courtesy of wpclipart. Ellen Grace Olinger

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: lost in the long grass childhood summers