Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This morning a hero died, Arnaud Beltrame, the gendarme who exchanged himself for a hostage, knowing he had little chance of coming out of the siege alive. He didn’t. His assassin was not a hero, or a martyr, though that is how he wanted to be remembered. He was…

#Haiku Happenings #1 (3/24/18): Tia Haynes’ latest haiku appears in Stardust!

Photo: yowlong/Creative Commons/Flickr Poet David He gives voice to a young girl’s sweet song and an older woman’s early dusk in two beautiful haiku. a green leaf between the girl’s lips her sweet song I envision a little girl holding a green leaf between her lips and humming a happy tune – maybe that of…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 揚雲雀空のまん中ここよここよ　　　正木ゆう子 agehibari sora no mannaka koko yo koko yo             skylark up in the air             here is the center of the sky!             here it is!                                                 Yuko Masaki from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: flat sea— the sail swollen with light © Francesco Palladino (Italy) What I enjoy most about this haiku is the mixture of serenity and awe one feels while reading it.  With the first line, we have a calm sea (emphasized by the dash). Seeing a calm sea, or a flat…

Originally posted on Ontheland: who is it? who thirsts for all this these transient things that bind the spirit? Take me to the sky wrap me in music, the gentle silence of dawn false spring? it’s the fire of life the roar of the sea ©️2018 Ontheland ~ Today I respond to Carpe Diem #1391:…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Posting this one a little late. ? Spring, the vernal equinox, and the words of Yeats’s Irish airman come to me: ‘in balance with this life, this death’. The circle is eternal, but constantly renewed, never the same, and the lives that turn with it share only a few…