Haijin in Action

  • Haiku – Arid

    Originally posted on qbit: Old pond is bone dry Sediment of centuries – Frogs crushed with boredom ? For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

  • Crunch…a #quadrille #haibun for .@dversePoets

    Crunch   (By jeffreyw (Mmm… chiliUploaded by Fæ) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons)   The crunch-crunch-crunch of corn tortilla chips mixed with her homemade chili. So different from the crunch-time I flopped when my supervisor walked into my classroom. The crunch-crunch-crunch of another bite. Washed down with fresh Burgundy!   fallen leaves crunching under…

  • Thirsting

    Originally posted on Jilly's: Cocoa Beach on a whim, we take sushi and chairs, questing the full cold moon’s rise over the ocean. The beach is a violent place with wind that yanks my hair from its spring clip and waves that out-shout the terns and ring-billed gulls. A little boy just to our left…

  • Today’s Haiku (December 4, 2017)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ごつごつの柚子ごつごつのにほひかな  辻 桃子 gotsugotsu no yuzu gotsugotsu no nioi kana rugged yuzu  and its  rugged smell                                                 Momoko Tsuji from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, July 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yuzu’ is a kind of orange and a winter kigo. ?

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 4, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: psych ward moonlight climbs the walls by Grant Savage  (Canada) ?

  • Two Stones Down

    Originally posted on the other bunny: So strange to find you here, wasting under the weeds. Not only are you dead, you’re missing. No one left knows where your body is buried. As a child, you were always in your mother’s sight.  She’s gone, too, no hand to lay on you.  But if a mother’s…

  • Colleen’s #Book #Reviews – “A Tanka Picture Book,” by Author, Annette Rochelle Aben

    Colleen’s #Book #Reviews – “A Tanka Picture Book,” by Author, Annette Rochelle Aben

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Colleen reviews a #tanka picture book!

  • winter cold

    winter cold

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 人々を しぐれよ宿は 寒くとも Hitobito wo Shigureyo yado wa Samuku tomo On the people, I hope drizzling winter rain, Even the house is cold. -Matsuo Basho Art by Kasamatsu Shiro, “Evening Rain-Shinobazu Pond”

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