Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to feature on Haiku Windows today! window shopping I decide to buy a lottery ticket Rachel Sutcliffe https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/06/13/haiku-windows-window-shop/

Originally posted on kanzen sakura: I have done a Bussokusekika, a Japanese poetic form that follows the rules of tanka, except there are three seven syllable lines that end the poem for a 5-7-5-7-7-7. Bussokusekika is an ancient form of poetry, older than Tanka or haiku. It translates to footprints of Buddha. New Moon crescent…

#Haiku Happenings #8: Barbara Kaufman’s Tanka appears in Tanka Sociery of America’s 2017 Anthology!

Originally posted on Sarah Potter Writes: Such extraversion, peonies glow neon pink: unmissable shout. That girl with a crazy hat brandishes her June paintbrush.

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: In his attempt to lay low after robbing a bank, the Invisible Man realizes, too late, he maybe could’ve picked a better hideout than Mrs. O’Halloran’s Gifted and Talented School for Lights Out Sleuthery.   this heavy air lifted by clicking cicadas —- © Steve Mitchell 2018

Originally posted on Ontheland: I learned about how to look after a yard from my father.  I watched him trim hedges, regularly mow and rake grass, trim cedar hedges, plant pansies purchased at the May Fair, turn on the sprinkler.  The result was an orderly lawn on a small city lot.  Now, a country field…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 僕のほかに腐るものなく西日の部屋　　福田若之 boku no hokani kusaru mono naku nishibi no heya             nothing to go rotten             except me… in the room             with the westering sun                                                 Wakayuki Fukuda from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note …