Originally posted on rivrvlogr: Carpe Diem #1659 Tan Renga – chestnut asks us to use a haiku by Matsuo Bashō (in blue – tr. Jane Reichhold) to create a tanka. autumn moonlight– a worm digs silently into the chestnut ???????????????Bashō satisfying a hunger while taking time to savor Image source: Wikimedia Commons (edited here)

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A five line poem for Tanka Tuesday. Last night the house was encircled by tiny lights in the grass. I’d never seen so many glow-worms together before. Magic. ? in the night garden wet sky-grass studded with fallen stars the sleeping house garlanded with light

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 風少しあるや立夏の満月に　　松尾隆信 kaze sukoshi aru ya rikka no mangetsu ni             slight wind—             the full moon             on the first day of summer                                                 Takanobu Matsuo from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #1 (5/7/19): Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! young greens… Image credit perhaps not quite full silver maple leaves release helicopter seeds some of the first fragile pale green still, fell and sprouted spring weeding’s easy when the ground is very wet as it’s been so far Image Credit at…

#Haiku Happenings #6: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!