Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 栗打つや近隣の空歪みたり　　　飯田龍太 kuri utsu ya kinrin no sora yugamitari             hitting chestnuts—             the neighboring sky             warped                                                 Ryuta Iida from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Ryuta Iida (1920-2007)

Originally posted on Ontheland: Happy to be included today on Troutswirl’s A Sense of Place: Hiking Trail — smell: winter hike wrapped in a knitted scarf the smell of wet wool ~ In ‘real’ time we are not wrapping wool scarves around our faces yet, but this is a sensation renewed for me almost every…

Originally posted on Bending moments: fainter and fainter the tinkle of bellbirds winding trail ? trail sounds… Source: A Sense of Place: HIKING TRAIL – hearing

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? coastal hike the scent of heather on the hill ? Editor’s comment: Here we are situated on a coast, where the humidity can help to carry scent – when I read this poem I am sure I can smell it… ? A Sense of Place, Hiking Trail Scents November 7,…

Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear on NeverEnding Story Butterfly Dream: Failing Light Haiku by Rachel Sutcliffe English Original failing light crows sink into silence Cattails, May 2016 Rachel Sutcliffe http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2018/11/butterfly-dream-failing-light-haiku-by.html?m=1

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