Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: One haiku of mine is featured among amazing poet friends in Haiku windows edited by Kathy Munroe. Thank you so much for this excellent selection. This week them’s: ticket wicket. https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/05/30/haiku-windows-ticket-wicket/ ?

Originally posted on Otata: Please note: as previously announced, Otata 30 will be delayed until June 10. Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 籐椅子にならびて掛けて恋ならず　　　富安風生 tôisu ni narabite kakete koi narazu             sitting on rattan chairs             next to each other             but not in love                                                 Fusei Tomiyasu from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Fusei Tomiyasu (1885-1979)  ‘tôisu’ (rattan chair) is a…

Originally posted on Bending moments: fireflies… glow of his cigarette in the summer night (Asahi Haikuist Network) May 18 https://t.co/fxk8GwPN7Y?amp=1

Originally posted on A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2024: * phone messages for people i don’t know stranded * stranded on an island rush hour * photographs i no longer remember stranded * for #30 NaHaiWriMo 5-30-2018 * Deborah B. Shepherd May 30: Stranded *