Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: leave taking watching the lights go out  one red maple         after  another         winter maples  the red-haired girl     knee deep in autumn  remembering  green   by Donna Bauerly (USA)

#Haiku Happenings #2: Jules’ latest solo #renga for my current #Haikai Challenge! reawakening? false orange castingrising with baited breath totweet bogus peace songs nature continues; justicewiggles in hibernation democracy winswaking for another daythe true sun rises ©JP/dh https://julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/nd-1-12-reawakening-1p/

Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Winter Vacuum, a Tanka Finding this morning a hole where first sun should be, vacuum sucking light; stranded gold, streaming from earth, as my slack face funnels tears. Image is from the HubbleSite. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: A double-header! Two distinct challenges in one…

Originally posted on K.: You meet me only on your own terms, describe me and put me into categories based on the systems created by the human mind.  You expect me to respond like you do, refusing to grant intelligence or even sentience to my interactions with others of my species, with the world I…

#Haiku Happenings #7: The Best American Poetry presents a Haiku exchange! Ed. note:  An exchange of e-mails on January 2, 2003, prompted David Shapiro to suggest to David Lehman that the two Davids “link haiku” for a year. They more modestly sustained their haiku exchange through the month of January 2003. In February of that…