Originally posted on Ontheland: the sparkle of frost capping each frozen stem winter’s touch a kindness under the distant sun . . ©️2019 Ontheland I am continuing to tag along with Frank Tassone’s November journey with Basho. This is the quote he offers for Day 3: On the first day of the fourth moon, climbed…

Originally posted on kanzen sakura: For Amaya’s prompt at dVerse, birth or birthing.  In Japanese, the word for first snow is hatsu yuki. It is a holy event. ? First Snow “When snow falls, nature listens. ”  Antoinette van Kleeff Today the November sky opens up and gives birth to the first snow.

Originally posted on Michael Rehling: trick of the moonlight hunters moon they call it. well i am vegan so that is just an artifact of what i am not. i live in an area surrounded by parks and hunting shacks with eighty or so acres of land with deer and other wild animals. but where…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 火を恋ふや独逸腸詰薄く切り　　宮下恵美子 hi o kou ya doitsu chôzume usuku kiri             yearning for a fire—             I slice German sausages             into thin pieces                                                                         Emiko Miyashita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  ‘hi o kou’ (yearn for a…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn deepens . . . a passenger squirrels away his season ticket Alan Summers (UK) Bacopa Literary Review, June 2019