Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: This is the last post in the Lockdown Poetry series. To all those who contributed a very big thank you from all of us at Cafe Haiku. If you sent us something and we did not carry it, do not get discouraged – try again next time. A very big…

Originally posted on My Inner Voice: re:Virals 249 Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was?  plumes of smoke   curl around…   the half-opened roses  ?— Hifsa Ashraf, haikuniverse (2019)? Corine Timmer considers life’s rituals: Each time I read this…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: reflected moon once I was young like a victory © A.M. https://underthebasho.com/current-year/ku/3262-anna-maria-domburg-sancristoforo.html

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 行先を食べはじめたる蝸牛　　堀切克洋 yukisaki o tabehajimetaru katstsumuri             it starts to eat             the destination             a snail                                                 Katsuhiro Horikiri from “Shakutori no Michi” (Inchworm Road), haiku collection of Katsuhiro Horikiri, Bungaku no Mori, Tokyo 2018

Haiku Happenings #5: Debbie Strange’s latest haiku appear in Creatrix! wheatfieldsa black bear’s headnow and then sea grassmy resolve beginsto waver derelict tractortumbleweeds stillroll along cottongrasswe nod at each otherin passing frozen cow piesthe dog races awaywith our puck laundry dayhow this world spinson without you skylarksthe words we can’ttake back https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com/2020/06/creatrix-poetry-and-haiku-journal.html

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: Wikimedia Commons fireflies flickering- grasses sway in summer air heavy with raindrops Frank J. Tassone: Haikai Challenge #142 Firefly (hotaru)