Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Hunter’s  moon rises Dolphins dance on the water Songs of love linger Painting: Dwight L. Roth Written for Frank Tassone’s Hiakia Challenge using the prompt Hunter’s Moon. Join us at: https://frankjtassone.com/2018/10/20/haikai-challenge-56-10-20-18-hunters-moon-nochi-no-tsuki-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/ ? ?

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A Hunter’s Moon tanka for Frank Tassone’s weekly haikai challenge. ? moonlight pools silver beneath the shadowy trees mingling with ground mist hunters pad on silent paws I know where the pheasants roost

Originally posted on kiwissoar: Answering a challenge to condense three of Basho’s wonderful ku into one.  To see the whole challenge visit the original post It is unexpectedly cold tonight and I am curled up under two quilts, wondering how I came to be in this unknown place.  The moon is lost among drifting stars…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 雲に入る月に呼ばれたような気が　　池田澄子 kumo ni iru tsuki ni yobareta yôna ki ga             I enter the cloud             feeling the moon             called my name                                                 Sumiko Ikeda from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), October 2016 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: In the autumn wind dead leaves blowing, detached lips whispering in misty wisps of gold and red.