Originally posted on Ontheland: . Last Thursday I was saddened to learn that Rachel Sutcliffe has died. She was/is an accomplished and recognized haiku poet who also shared her work on WordPress at Projectwords. Her Haiku Foundation profile may be found here. Rachel’s poetry is on my favourites list. Though I wish she had been…

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: talking done the dregs of friendship in our mugs tinywords 15 December 2015 my thoughts after reading Rachel’s above haiku.  not a single word to express my feelings  after you  the mist of time  shrouds my heart  Hifsa Ashraf 

#Haiku Happenings #7: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge My inspiration to honor haiku poet Rachel Sutcliffe long wait knitting the tension into a scarf By Rachel Sutcliffe in: Cattails January 2015 detailed attention one hook, two needles twisted yarn, into unique determined pieces scarves and blankets mostly from others discarded ends;…

Originally posted on Isabel Caves: leaves depart – but I still hear their voices in the mist ? Written for Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge ? This haiku was inspired by the work of the late Rachel Sutcliffe: autumn stroll we pick blackberries out of the mist (Cattails, September 2014) May her voice forever be…

Originally posted on petrujviljoen: I hold a shard of stone. It’s seashell from ancient Gondwana, over two hundred million years old. It was just lying there, on the surface of the earth as we tread it, and bound to it by the force of gravity. In far away England, right across the world from where…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge this week is to write a tribute haiku to one of the late Rachel Sutcliffe’s poems. Rachel lived a few miles from the small town where I grew up in Yorkshire, and her haiku are unfailingly the best I have ever read. The haiku I…