Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 夏に入る肩甲骨をきしませて　　杉山久子 natsu ni iru kenkôkotsu o kishimasete ??????????? summer begins ??????????? with the squeak ??????????? of our shoulder blades ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Hisako Sugiyama from Izumi (Spring), haiku collection of Hisako Sugiyama, Furansudo, Tokyo 2015

Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: at my deskyellow tulipacross the yardby the garageoffers light

Originally posted on This Lust My Ceaseless Koan: on an empty street without a sound snow falls

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: with the years that have passedgreater than those left to comemoments once frozen in timeblend one into anotheras memories become a blur This gogyohka is my response to Colleen Chesebro’s #Tanka TuesdayWeekly #Poetry Challenge No. 226 #Ekphrastic #Photoprompt,with the photo provided by Trent McDonald. Gogyohka (pronounced go-gee-yoh-kuh)~ a form of Japanese…

Originally posted on Ladyleemanila: OLYMPOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA: Trent MacDonald, photographerUS DIGITAL CAMERA commune with naturestop, listen to its talkchasing waterfall chasing waterfallsound of the fountain of lifeever so faithful ever so faithfulstridently trickling downsplashing like pearls splashing like pearlscleanses the soul and spiritrefreshingly good refreshingly goodcool water, my loyal frienddrizzling onto me drizzling onto mea…