Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 青大将おのが身の上折り返す　　星野恒彦 aodaishô onoga minoue orikaesu ??????????? Japanese rat snake ??????????? it turns around ??????????? and retraces its life ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tsunehiko Hoshino from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), May 2022 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #1 (6/19/23): Al Gallia’s haiku appears in Charlotte Digregorio’s Daily Haiku (5/31/23)! Searching for Serendipity I am very proud to have one of my haiku included in Charlotte’s recent Writers Blog Daily Haiku. An old, overgrown cemetery is such a sacred place to me. Add to the solitude the countless layers of fallen…

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: Haiku by Hifsa Ashraf peacock flower—I still am a motherof the unborn child #FemKuMag issue 34 鳳凰木 — 私はまだ胎児の母親 —— autumn leavesraking to and frohis last words Presence, #73 紅葉 あちこちで彼の最後の言葉掻き集める —— sunlit dewdropson the grassy fieldchild’s first poem 太陽に照らされた露のしずく 芝生のフィールドに 子供の最初の詩— lake’s mistunfolding my storythe rorschach test…

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: to bedbeforethe stars —— © Steve Mitchell 2023 

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夜のシャワー俺が捕つたら勝つてゐた　　黒岩徳将 yo no shawaa ore ga tottara katteita ??????????? night shower ??????????? our team would have won ??????????? if I caught that ball ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tokumasa Kuroiwa from Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), February 2019 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo

Originally posted on the other bunny: On a narrow hallway off to the left of the main stage, a row of private pleasure booth doors swing open and closed. Clicks of tokens in slots and glances of women adjusting themselves between customers. She leans back; has a moment or two to herself. In the gallery…