Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This is for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge. ? Winter storm fills the ears with the roar of water, rain and river. When wind abates, between the drips, I hear woodpecker’s fury.

Originally posted on petrujviljoen: a cold sweat beading every fibre on lockdown – privacy raided … Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge 15

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: winter storm hunter timber wolf is ravenous a hungering need ©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg  Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge

Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: This is a Haibun for Frank’s Haikai challenge on winter storms. On the day of the snow “bomb cyclone,” we only had a few inches of snow, but it was very cold blustery day. In between phone calls about my mom, I made soup and baked.…

Originally posted on the other bunny: Shovelling in the last of the potatoes, I push back my chair and undo my belt.  My gut is round and loose.  It’s been a good summer.  No amount of winter will cut through me now. slap shot … I burrow in my man cave Dave Read

#Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? Like the lithe bowing Of a maple sapling My heart turns to you, Yearns for those nights long ago When pale skin challenged the moon. Lady Nyo ?   Structure Today the standard form is generally noted to be (in syllables) 5-7-5-7-7.  This is both in English and…

Originally posted on A Poet in Time: ? It is always an honor to appear in Pamela A. Babusci’s Moonbathing, a Journal of Women’s Tanka.  The high level of quality tanka in this bi-annual journal by some of the best women writers of tanka make it a journal to read again and again. ? Moonbathing, a…