Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * apple on my counter autumn * for #1 NaHaiWriMo 6-1-2018 * Patty Hardin JUNE 1: APPLE *

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: The moon’s light shines through a clearing in the autumn clouds, the path appears only to tease my solitude. ~ Since no one will come the moon’s light shining on the path leading to my house only teases my solitude.

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: opening the heart— how to burst into life 49/100 Gardens #The100DayProject #100daysnewthings

Originally posted on revivedwriter: I have written several poems about Memorial Day during the past week or so. Here is my contribution for Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt about Memorial Day. Let us remember Why we eat at barbeques On the last Monday In May: for many Mondays Fallen soldiers sacrificed. ?

#Haiku Happenings #8: Jules’ 3rd #renga soliloquy for my current #haikai challenge!   MAY 31, 2018 ~ JULES remembering hues (for my father) as many drops drip perhaps limitless that is the verse of this spring heavy dew, rain due, again reflective times from Sky’s eye? tears of loss weighing with bulk, the gray dread; headstones lining…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 畑にゐる母の小さき雲の峰　　小野寿子 hata ni iru haha no chiisaki kumo no mine a small figure of mother in the field cloud peaks                                                 Hisako Ono from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine, March 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘kumo no mine’ (a peak…