Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Before it got too hot, I took the dogs out for a walk around the newly mown meadows. Yesterday our walk was curtailed because Trixie followed us and a cat in a field is fair game as far as dogs are concerned. The day before we had to double…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Paul Brookes’ 30DayWild challenge. Haibun for wild maps These fields are veined with running feet, the hooved and the padded, the broad forked twig-feet of pheasants. Through the long grass they run, tunnelled through bramble, broadening to the crushed stalks of temporary resting places. River banks are scored…

Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: book reviewsnews about writersI have read for years by Ellen Grace Olinger The new Modern Haiku arrived yesterday.

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ゴキブリが邪馬台国を探査中　　豊里友行　 gokiburi ga yamataikoku o tansaku-chû ??????????? cockroach… ??????????? it is searching for ??????????? the Kingdom of Yamatai ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tomoyuki Toyozato from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, August 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? “cockroach” is a summer kigo.? The Kingdom of…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: sitting by the river morning passes through me by Pat Davis (USA)   Frogpond, Fall 2020