Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 鉛筆で指す海青し卒業歌　　寺山修司 enpitsu de sasu umi aoshi sotsugyôka pointing the blue ocean with a pencil… graduation song                                                 Shuji Terayama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Shuji Terayama (1935-1983) is a poet and playwright.   Japanese school year ends in March…

Originally posted on Haiku Commentary: pausing halfway up the stair— white chrysanthemums © Elizabeth Searle Lamb (1917-2005) (USA) The first thing that caught my eye about this haiku is how the juxtaposition between the two parts of the poem can create different meanings. For instance, we don’t know if the white chrysanthemums are pausing, or…

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: Last Saturday I left home a mother and made a journey of just over four hours to visit my daughter and look after her home while she was in hospital. The train journey was chilly and the landscape covered by a blanket of snow, with the constant worry…

Originally posted on the other bunny: We called ourselves Lucy and Ethyl, always getting into some sort of trouble. Two sisters, partners in crime, been places nobody knows about, done things nobody should. Problem is, time is short. What happens when you’re the only one left, who remembers? Lost again the way we laugh was…

#Haiku Happenings #6: Barbara Kaufman’s haiku “spring rain…” !

Originally posted on feathers: ? ? again, rain —my hands filled withbroken glass ? ? broken — join us in NaHaiWriMo on Facebook; I’m prompting this March!

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: tears of loneliness washing over me in waves echoed in gulls cries The challenge in Carpe Diem Crossroads #1 is to write a new haiku inspired by the words in two haiku (“fusing” them) ~ written by Chèvrefeuille and Basho ~ alone on the beach only the cries of seaguls –…