Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu art exhibit my abstract draws praise when turned upside down by John J. Dunphy  (USA) bottle rockets, #35, 2016 ?

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: ? Kawase Hasui（川瀬巴水） un lago scuro la notte senza luna – scrosci di pioggia   a dark lake the moonless night – pounding rain   © A.M.

Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: She dreams of springtime sunshine kissing seeds and buds, a season of hope ensorcells her once again to drift with cherry blossoms ? John William Waterhouse, “Windswept,” [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ? This is for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday—using synonyms of charm and time.

Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . leaves patterning shadowlight the mazy paths ? ? ? ? .

Photo: stanze/Creative Commons/Flickr Polish poet Marta Chociłowska paints a picture of the happy hustle and bustle of a market flower stand in a delightful haiku. shopping list a woman at the market sells catkins Imagine a bustling market with a stall where a woman, Eliza Doolittle-like, sells fresh-cut flowers and bundles of long, beautiful willow…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 南瓜蒔く書斎の窓はここに開く　　山口青邨 kabocha maku shosai no mado wa koko ni aku             planting pumpkin seeds             my study window             open to the spot                                                 Seison Yamaguchi from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Seison Yamaguchi (1892-1988)  ‘kabocha maku’ (planting pumpkin…