#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Icebox: グランプリ作品　Grand Prix  The Forbidden Pet  (Branko Manojlovic, Japan) 庵賞作品　An (Cottage) Prizes Way of Lilies  (Marietta MacGregor, Australia) Let there be Lightning  (Ignatius Fay, Canada) Waiting for Christmas in Ohio   (Chris Bays, U.S.A.) 入選作品　Honourable Mentions Lost   (Sean O’Connor, Ireland) Brazilian Night   (Marina Bellini, Italy) Red, Blue, White   (Dru Philippou, U.S.A.) Coal Mines  …

Originally posted on the other bunny: Swamp night in frowsty summer. At Kutsu’s house, his great-grand’s three-room prairie villa, smoke sleaves out our tight wet leers. Rosemary royals the hose harsh. Crozzled schwag ashes tongues tin-brined with near beer blech, ponged by blue Solo pyramids. In the morning, church, Welch’s communion to burn off the…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ゴリラいて春あけぼのへ首のばす　　岸本マチ子 goria ite haru akebono e kubi nobasu             a gorilla…             he stretches his neck             towards the spring dawn                                                             Machiko Kishimoto from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . sage face of a little girl her storybook ? Silent carriage. At six in the evening the sun’s rays are nearly horizontal and penetrate the train’s grimy windows with an opaque light. The workers are tired. They stand,or sit, speechless. The noise of the busy world has abated.…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: The theme word for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge this week is: warm. ? Earth oozes stored warmth a battery, sun-fueled. ? Leaf green wakes morning of the year warm blood courses. ? Birth comes to wild woods tender bird-babble stream songs.