Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? It is always quiet here, a few cars taking three people to work and two sets of children to school. An elderly couple walks past for exercise. But first thing in the morning if the wind is in the right direction we can hear the distant hum of…

Originally posted on Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog: courtesan and monk, we sleep under one roof together, moon in a field of clover ~ Basho Outside, apple blossoms glow in the dusk. She lies on her side, head propped up on a pillow, her eyes telling me that something important is coming, my eyes…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Image ©2020 Padre’s Ramblings for Colleen’s poetry prompt Parma ham with melon… pizza… tiramisu. I still remember that first time, dining out as a ‘grown up’. It was the Seventies… the little Italian restaurant by the Arches was all new to me. I wasn’t even old enough to…

Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: blackbird singing at the top of the tree self-isolated

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 叱られし子が唄を入れ石鹸玉  小滝　肇 shikarareshi ko ga uta o ire shabondama             being scolded             a child puts a song             inside soap bubbles                                                 Hajime Kotaki from ‘Oyoso Kimi To’(‘Almost Always with You’) haiku collection by Hajime Kotaki, Saku Shuppan, Tokyo 2018

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn deepens— the pumpkins colonize my grandma’s yard ? by Goran Gatalica (Croatia) Creatrix, WA Poets, #48, March 2020