Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 潜りたき日とてあるらむあめんぼう　　長沼ひろ志　　 moguritaki hi tote aruran amenbô ??????????? it might have a day ??????????? when it wants to dive ??????????? the water slider ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Hiroshi Naganuma from Kusamochi (Mugwort Cake), haiku collection of Hiroshi Naganuma, Gendai Haiku Kyokai (Modern Haiku Association), Tokyo, 2021　

Originally posted on revivedwriter: This tanka is for Frank’s haikai challenge trifecta and also for this prompt about windows. at the end of June looking out on summer lawn sun scorches dry grass from behind glass window pane chilly air blows through the house

Originally posted on Mindfills: wind’s caresssummer moon streams unsettling ***Mindfills for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge – natsu no tsuki (summer moon***

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: At the Cambridge, MA public lbrary. Haiku with author Hannah Mahoney.

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: twilight dawn the back porch lit with white cyclamen (Modern Haiku, Autumn 2020) 薄明の夜明け バックポーチが点灯 白いシクラメンと一緒に folded wheelchair mother’s shoes too big to fill (Stardust Haiku, Oct 2020) 折り畳まれた車椅子 母の靴が大きすぎる 埋めるのに pruned rose bush winter’s hush of introspection (Cattails, Oct 2020) 剪定されたバラの茂み 冬の静けさ 内省の daphne… the fragrance of…