#Haiku Happenings #8: Xenia Trans haiku is an Honorable Mention in the 22nd HIA Haiku Contest (2020)! early dawn he fills the doorframe with his laughter *** Honourable Mention in the 22nd HIA Haiku Contest (2020). A warm-hearted thank you to David Burleigh for selecting my poem and many congratulations to all the other winners. Haiku: A New…

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: New Year’s Day — the sun sleeps late too Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2022/01/morning-haiku-from-sunrise-to-noon.html), 1/1/22. * * * *

#Haiku Happenings #6: Barbara Kaufmann’s latest #tanka appears in Moon bathing! deep into autumn  the garden calls us even now we try to hold the last of the soil’s warmth Deep Into Autumn – wabi sabi ~~~ poems and images

Originally posted on the other bunny: downwind from the cattle ranch, cooking hash on a campfire, smells like nuclear fallout, the time for mourning the cows—over and done—we milked the last one before slicing her throat yesterday, moo-town blues, harmonica melted in the blast, no lips anyway, half the world gone, the other half going,…

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: cloudfall the city trembles

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: hu mantra —beyond breath cloudsthe first light sand dunescontouring the footprintsof this inner journey midsummer dreamsfloating on the lakerice paper lanterns the point whereI decided to move onriver’s bend after pilgrimagethe noctilucent cloudswalks me home cloudburst—the breaking pointof my insecurities murmuration—the dark shadowof my silence The Zen Space, Winter…