Originally posted on Bending moments: clearing the cupboard my daughter’s cabbage patch doll — a tug in my heart * Asahi Haikuist Network, March 20, 2020

Originally posted on Ontheland: first spring night below the crescent moon a world pandemic . . ©️2020 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #130 – Spring Equinox

Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: shaking handstouching ones facedaredevil acts

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ふらここの影がふらここより迅し　　　齋藤朝比古 furakoko no kage ga furakoko yori hayashi             a swing’s shadow             it is faster             than a swing                                                 Asahiko Saito from ‘Ruijitsu’(‘Day After Day’) haiku collection by Asahiko Saito, Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo 2013 Fay’s Note: “buranko’ or ‘furakoko’ (swing) is a spring…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? fatigue swells in ocean waves of back and forth and the tidal eye wanders to wild tulips almost over

Originally posted on Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog: Field at present day Hiraizumi, Japan . . . all that remains of soldiers’ dreams. Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” ~Salvatore Quasimodo Bashō’s travel journals, purportedly the earliest…