Originally posted on Project words: Very pleased to appear in the October issue of Failed Haiku ? another year makes no difference your absence ? closing her eyes my last letter unread ? memories at midnight the crumbs in my bed ? IV line falling faster my tears ? monkey bars trying to grasp grown…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? Gustave De Smet ? autumn sunset – on the radio the Beatles sing Penny Lane tramonto d’autunno – alla radio i Beatles cantano Penny Lane autumn journey – feeling one with the leaves     autumn rainbow – the kitchen garden’s crumbled wall arcobaleno d’autunno – il muro…

#Haiku Happenings #2: Barbara Kaufmann’s latest #senryu appears in Failed Haiku!

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: To everything there is a time and a season… the cycle of life.  Every year we celebrate the coming of each season on its anniversary. Spring, summer, fall and winter, all come and go with precise clockwork. Each anniversary, flowers bloom as days increase and decrease in length. In the…

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: The challenge for Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #52 Tagore’s “Last Curtain” is to distill a poem by Rabindranath Tagore into a haiku, which is then to be the base to create a troiku. Here is the Tagore poem to be distilled: Last Curtain I know that the day will come when my…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 自転車にほのと錆の香秋の暮　　脇屋善之 jitensha ni hono to sabi no ka aki no kure             a faint smell of rust             on the bicycle             autumn dusk                                                 Yoshiyuki Wakiya from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine,  October 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo