Originally posted on Michael Rehling: bad moon rising the wolf moon has begun its transition to a ‘blue’ moon. january is always cold but this year it has and will continue to be a howling monster of snow and double digit negative wind chill factors. so just another version of michigan winter for me. i…

Originally posted on O at the Edges: Empty Cup ? I set down my cup, pour tea and think this day, too, may never end. ? With what do we quantify love? How does grief measure us? Nine days ago I wrote “My father is dying and I’m sipping a beer.” More words followed, but…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 冬オリオンＦの鉛筆持つ角度　　中尾公彦 fuyu orion efu no enpitsu motsu kakudo             winter Orion             an angle of holding             an ‘F’ pencil                                                 Kimihiko Nakao from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), November 2016 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: we called it “The Little Store” . . . memories of ice cream This place was a cramped little mom-and-pop deli that also served ice cream. They’d hand-pack it — maple walnut, mint chocolate chip, vanilla fudge, cherry vanilla — into Chinese food take-out containers so high that…

Originally posted on method two madness: Like a murmuring moon, my lunation turns and repeats, always unfinished. As indistinct as air– unbroken darkness veiled in expanding light. Before and after become lost– the shifting rhymes remain untamed. The edge waxes and wanes. The colors blend and unrainbow– silent, dazzled, unforeseen. A quadrille for dVerse (murmur),…