Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: a few dayliliesand hosta flowersplants beginto rest red geraniumblooms in the gardenand still grows This is the geranium we bought from Windmill Gardens in Cedar Grove; small red geranium is our post from May 13, 2021. I looked at their Facebook page?and they are “Closed for the Season.”…

#Haiku Happenings #6: Reena Saxena’s latest #tanka!

Originally posted on Memorie di una Geisha, multiblog internazionale di Haiku: nubi di vento –due cigni nuotanofianco a fianco * wind clouds –two swans swimside by side ~-~ silencesimple like lovecactus flower * fiore di catussemplice come l’amoreil silenzio ~-~ warm cloudsbare feet on the grassto meet the wind * nuvole caldesull’erba i piedi nudiincontro…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: arriving first on the tennis court autumn leaves

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For dverse. First day of August is Lugh’s day, harvest day, the day of festivities and games in honour of Lugh’s foster mother, of Puck fairs, wild goats and bilberries. Balanced between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox it marks the high point of summer, the gathering of…

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Author’s Note: I’ve had the recent good fortune to meet a local farmer who, among other things, grows for Bird’s Eye. The woes he’s been experiencing in the onslaught of days upon days of rain engendered these lines. Thank you, Ken Mattingly of M-B Farms.…