Haijin in Action

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/14/18)

    4/14/18: persimmon dawn birdsongs a burnt tongue after a sip of persimmon tea #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #glopowrimo2018 #napowrimo2018

  • haiku: winter grey…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . winter grey a pigeon blunders in matted twigs ? ? ? ? .

  • Bamboo Hut

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in the new issue of Bamboo Hut today ! ? funeral home my hand on hers one last time ? a bare bulb above the unmade bed this silence ? origami class I fold up my tension ? pavement puddles the toddler meets his upside down self…

  • Haiku windows, edited by kjmunroe, is open! (Outhouse window).

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: ? outhouse window cherry blossom rain over the roof ~ Eufemia Griffo https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/04/11/haiku-windows-outhouse-window/

  • A Haikai Ars Poetica

      The tai chi windchime’s melody plays without ceasing. Spindly, naked branches atop towering locus trees sway. Grasshoppers chirp in a choral counterpoint to the bass drone of the Friday evening rush-hour. Shrivelled, potted daffidils bathe in the late afternoon sun. A hawk soars in a tight circle high above the tallest Locus. The warmest…

  • First Cherry Blossoms

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s latest haikai challenge. This one was difficult for me. We waited for spring. February was too cold. Love was not coming. But look! Pink as sun’s first rays, Cherry trees in bloom, hope stays.

  • Rainbow

    Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: A rainbow is the marriage of sunlight and rain. When kissed by a raindrop, a beam of white light disperses, in a similar way to light through a glass prism, into the colours at the ends of the visible light spectrum. We are taught about optical phenomena in…

  • Django Fontina

    Originally posted on wordshophop: I had been practicing my django fontina for almost a year. There was something about being somewhere or nowhere and dropping the postcard poem addressed to someone I never knew. It started in the summer after my third grade when I entered my name in a postcard pyramid scheme. It was…

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