Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 梅の咲く窓を映画の如く見る　　岩田由美 ume no saku mado o eiga no gotoku miru ??????????? plum blossoms ??????????? I watch the window ??????????? as if I watch a movie ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Yumi Iwata from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

#Haiku Happenings #1 (2/22/2021): Dolores Fegan’s latest #haiga! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dolores Fegan (@adasalcove)

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Don’t miss your chance to begin writing poetry or improve your poetry, get it published, and establish yourself as a well-known writer! My new reference book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing,  contains  hundreds of  haiku, tanka, haibun, haiku sequences, and dozens of other forms, such as sonnets…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 一日の眠き時間よ亀の鳴く　　稲畑汀子 ichinichi no nemuki jikan yo kame no naku ??????????? time of a day ??????????? when one becomes sleepy… ??????????? a tortoise calls ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Teiko Inahata from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Though a tortoise doesn’t sing like a…

Originally posted on Pieces of My Mind: snow over empty bench waiting for sping ©️J. Kleponis, 2021.