Originally posted on Rooted in Love: Fog over the wheat fields… a lover’s hand pregnant with the moon ~ In the hush of midnight the yellow daffodil gilding the light of the moon

Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: ? old bazaar she picks a book of love poems Pizza margherita in the kitchen her scent of lavender Shinto temple a kami knows * my wishes * Eufemia Griffo * Kami: (Japanese: 神, [kaꜜmi]) are the spirits or phenomena that are worshipped in the religion of Shinto.…

Originally posted on Ontheland: The following haiku could be ‘digested’ separately or as a related series. They are responses to Rumi’s call: “…don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so everyone will understand the passage, we have opened you.”  Rumi’s full poem “Unfold your…

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . The withy-bed. Now a damp wood. It has rained. Early Spring showers from a burgeoning cloudscape. There is a chill breeze in unsheltered spots. Between the trees, sudden bright sunlight across the woodland floor which is clothed in the fresh green of new growth. This wood, once tended…

#Haiku Happenings #2: Jules’ latest #renga for my current #haikai challenge! Singing, sighing and sighing Variations of April in any shape and size An unthemed, theme a unique shrub (no foolin’) our home came with a white azalea bush – when in bloom bees fill blossoms also one of the symbols of São Paulo, Brazil…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge. These lilies are typical of the wild and garden flowers in this part of the world and it’s the flower in all the holy pictures and holy statues of my childhood. Photo ©muffinn Lily in the shade pearl in gloomy waters glows pale-faced moonflower.

Originally posted on failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu: Check out this complete issue for some really unique submissions: http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue28.pdf On Monday I will post the guest editor and guidelines for next months issue! Mike