#Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for #dversepoets!

Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: This issue, guest edited by Shloka Shankar, is now up for your viewing!!! There are 47 haiga by some astoundingly good haijin! I am so impressed that Shloka could FAIL so superbly! She has taken failure to a whole new level. Sincerely thank her for find…

Originally posted on Otata: Click on the links below to read otata 29 (May, 2018) ? and from otata’s bookshelf — John Levy, On its Edge A print copy of the book can be had here. Ξ Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata…

Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the Spring issue of Prune Juice today bathroom mirror the bare face of insomnia ? life long friends the silence death leaves ? black ice how suddenly things change ? a child’s breath on the dandelion time takes flight ? school reunion we get to know each…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 落ちかけて日のとどまりし蕨かな　　藤田湘子 ochikakete hi no  todomarishi warabi kana             the sun starts to sink             and stops…             a bracken                                                 Shoshi Fujita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: Shoshi Fujita (1926-2005)   ‘warabi’ (bracken) is a spring kigo.