Haijin in Action

  • Course Correction: a #haibun

    Not the way. Whatever is not the way soon ends… Laoxi, from Lao-Tzu: A Book about the Way and the power of the Way, Ursula K. Le Guin Are we sure? We have walked this road for a long time. Footstep after footstep across the soft earth of community, and the hard pavement of individualism.…

  • Today’s Haiku (July 1, 2020)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): とかげ出て懺悔の淵を覗きこむ  小池つと夢 tokage dete zange no fuchi o nozokikomu             a lizard comes out             and looks into an abyss             of confession                                                 Tsutomu Koike from “Shûchakueki” (The Last Stop), haiku collection of Tsutomu Koike, Gendai Haiku Kyokai (Modern Haiku Association), Tokyo, 2019

  • Prolific Press Haiku Acceptance!

    #Haiku Happenings #8: Susi Bocks’ latesth haiku appears in Prolific Press! I Write Her Thank you so much Prolific Press for accepting and publishing my haiku submission. What wonderful news to receive today! Glenn Lyvers and the team at Prolific Press are wonderful to work with. I appreciate your support of my work! If you…

  • ALICE IN CORONALALALAND 3: I’M LATE …

    Originally posted on the other bunny: 8 o’clock, Thursday evening. From that first tentative ripple of applause through spatulas on frying pans to a smattering of fireworks, the inhabitants of our locked down microcosmic Wonderland can be heard looking out. For each other. blood and guts those still working Helen Buckingham

  • “swaying line …” a #tanka (7/1/20)

    7/1/20: #62 PROMPT– butterflies for happiness and consolation swaying line of a wind-blown spider’s web yet among the lillies flittering butterflies #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Langtang ~ a haibun

    Originally posted on Mindfills: wafting pine incence ~mirage * Deep-fried apple pie. The lady who made it on a pine wood fire will come looking me. I was hallucinating. Tiny arrows of icicles ricoched off everyone’s parkha and stung my cheeks. Rarefied air crusted the mind at 17000 Himalayan feet. We’d been walking, crunching white…

  • COVID-Escape

    Originally posted on veredit-iertes by Isabella Kramer: COVID Escape unexpected visita neighbor’s catbreaks the rules escape in my gardenthe flapping of butterfly wingsnothing more hawthorn blossomsdrunken beesenjoy their community the earth isn’t roundenough to escapeour own race small fishesand no swarmthat protects us bunny ears and maskseaster greetingsfrom the neighbors Isabella Kramer first published by…

  • three haikai verses

    Originally posted on weird laburnum: lemon-scented hospital beds how they hold our hands as blackbirds * in silence stones in an arc of dawn to dusk * too late the politician’s conscience Alan Summers

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