Originally posted on Bending moments: homeless… pigeons guard her sleeping form (Windfall, issue 8, 2020)

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? wind blows a hornpipe through gusty boughs sky ocean rocks ? tree sighs in the wind for lost leaves thrush finds a snail ? beneath dewdrops frogs blink sun-dozing a restless spring stream

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: together looking to the stars shared insight Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge 124 – Martha Magenta Tribute asks us to write a  poem that honors the spirit of a haiku by Martha Magenta. My senryū is inspired by: night watch . . . I follow her gaze to the stars ???????????Martha Magenta…

Originally posted on Bending moments: barefoot in the park… this urge * secret loves mum’s the word * (Failed Haiku- issue 50- January 2020

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Ronovan’s challenge. Not a haiku but a haibun. Not wanting to bore anyone with yet another haibun about spring (this is already the second in two days) I’m posting this one to the dverse prompt too. ? The time has come for cutting, for taking knife and secateurs…

Originally posted on Xanku: When society was agrarian “quarter day” meant payday, servants hired, school starts, rent due. The first such calendar marker happens in February, although it is actually a “cross quarter” day, or the day midway between quarter days. February’s cross quarter day marks the slow return to Spring. In the Church the…