Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear on A Sense of Place again today mountain trail the length of this blister Rachel Sutcliffe https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/08/15/a-sense-of-place-mountain-sight/

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 地球儀の日本は小さし敗戦忌　　生田比呂志 chikyûgi no nihon wa chisashi haisenki             Japan on the globe             is small…             August 15                                                 Hiroshi Ikuta from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:   ‘haisenki’ (Lost War Memorial Day)…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 一とむらのおいらん草に夕涼み　　　三橋鷹女 hitomura no oiransô ni yûsuzumi             a cluster             of ‘courtesan’ grass             the cool of the evening                                                             Takajo Mitsuhashi from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Takajo Mitsuhashi (1899-1972)    ‘oiransô’ (‘summer phlox,’ literal translation: ‘courtesan grass’) is…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: School was an ordeal for me until I got the hang of it (and it got the hang of me). For dverse. First day at school I am put on the bus because mother has a new baby father’s at work and Grandma is minding the other two so…

Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #46 – Fire power of fire the battle lost by some men many tears are wept the cries of the mountain’s scorch and the trees that stand no more as it rages on homes, victims of its wrath souls, unsure, displaced let tears be prayers to…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Madama Butterflyby Esther Wagner ? ? Ti vengo incontro  Là sulle strade bianche delle farfalle   E respirando piano di nuovo ti sorrido       I come to you there on the white roads of the butterflies   And barely breathing I smile at you once again ©…