#Haiku Happenings #5: Jules’ latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! keening lamentation still almost full; stuck at seven, the bare branches holding winter moon after another long night, water falling from heaven what causes such grief, or is there some great humor; causing all those tears? (photo credit: Bright Moon through Trees (Jukan no…

Originally posted on kanzen sakura: For Frank’s Haiki Challenge #62, Winter Moon. I am keeping my new haibun short, more in keeping with the original haibun created by Basho. I am now writing haibun that are less than 65 words. Haibun – Full Beaver Moon The Algonquin tribes named this moon Beaver moon for the…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A winter moon tanka for Frank Tassone’s challenge. ? moon hangs round in a sky of rushing cloud frost creeps through the grass weaving pale furred blankets cold as my summer-drained bones

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Who knows how many souls were lost when this ship went down in the gales of November. Its bones were unearthed on the Outer Banks by another storm many years later. Now it lies in the sand as children and adults look in awe at this piece of the past…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 三つほど悪い茸の出てゐたる　鴇田智哉 mittsu hodo warui kinoko no deteitaru             about three of them             are malicious             mushrooms come up                                                             Tomoya Tokita from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), November 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo