Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: Raleigh, NC Afro-American poet Lenard Moore was given the honor this July.  I met Lenard back in the early 80’s at Japan House in Manhattan when we were both new on the haiku scene.  It was my pleasure to enjoy his performance at the Haiku North America conference in…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): わが旅のこれより先は大夕焼　　長谷川　櫂 waga tabi no koreyori saki wa ôyuyake             my journey             from here             just a vast sunset                                                 Kai Hasegawa from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September  2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘yuuyake (or ‘yuyake’) (sunset) is a summer…

Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome to DVerse, Poets! Frank Tassone here, your host for today’s Meet the Bar, where we take a deep dive into poetic craft. Many of us have written haibun for Haibun Monday prompts. That means we have written haiku. Did you know that you could write multiple haiku that express a…

Originally posted on writing in north norfolk: no dawn chorus rising later every day sunflowers ripe wheat unmoving in the field a splash of poppies brittle with heat leaves already yellow awaiting release scarecrow silhouette leaning west towards the sun redundancy silent blackbirds in their annual moult counting feathers Kim M. Russell, 30th July 2020…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: graceful waterfallflowing from a hidden source-ancient mystery Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #149 Waterfall