Originally posted on Jilly's: live oaks retain life November the joyous month southern doors flung wide thankful for reprieve from heat we walk in the midday sun Photo by Jilly ? © Jilly’s  All Rights Reserved Posted for Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #8 – Thanksgiving. November is the most beautiful month in Florida.  It…

Originally posted on petrujviljoen: Photo: Wikipedia ? Thankfully passing memories in the doorway – turkey – a strange bird ……. Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge – Thanksgiving

Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? Life gives us such beauty and pain, sometimes in almost equal measures.  I find solace in reading selections from the great Man’yoshu, this document from 8th century Japan.  I have written here before about this great collection of over 4500 poems, but of course, not all of them…

Originally posted on Michael Rehling: a whisper turns to a thought the erasure of time has made my limbs blind. i stumble in the grass. how is it that i cant find the way home as easily as i used to. has old age begun to strangle me. dew on the grass has been my…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: bathroom cleaning the dirt speck sprouts legs by Amy Losak  (USA) Prune Juice, March 2017 ?

Originally posted on Poet's Corner: ? orange squash bubbling in a pot silence deepens then from the window laughter! children playing ball evening shadow in the naked kaki* tree a last leaf falls gsk ’17 kaki – persimmon