Originally posted on Life in Portofino: Charley in Korea my service over casting my helmet aside a cricket moves in a cast-off helmet long walk to civilian life hear the cricket sing ? Posted to Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #7.

Originally posted on the other bunny: I enter the bathroom at half past seven. As usual there are three things for me to do: close the toilet lid, put the toothpaste back to the mug and hang up the towel. Every morning the same sequence. Once in a while I’d like to surprise myself and…

Originally posted on qbit: Our Armistice now – Fields of crosses row on row Yet the poppies blow ? *With apologies to “In Flanders Fields” For Frank’s Haikai Challenge

Originally posted on Michael Rehling: centering the periphery the struggle to ‘get to the in crowd’ is never worth it. yes i know never is a very unambiguous word but that is what i intend. the ‘top of the mountain’ can kill you and anyway the real view in my opinion is from valley below…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 木は砂の音立て冬になる途中　　山岸由佳 ki wa suna no oto tate fuyu ni naru tochû with a sound of sands trees in the process of becoming a winter                                                 Yuka Yamagishi from “Mame No Ki” (“Bean Tree”), No. 21, May 2017 Issue, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: A Rengay by Mary Kendall & Bill Waters stillness — violet fades to black the scratch of a match as I strike it a flicker of memory starts then stops turn of the tide . . . how hard it is to let go a limb of driftwood…