Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: INTRODUCTION 日本語の案内は英文の下にあります The Akita International Haiku, Senryū, and Tanka Network organized the Japan-Russia Haiku Contest with great success for 7 years. This tri-lingual (Japanese, Russian, and English) contest always yielded beautiful poetry from poets all over the world. This year, however, we are re-launching the haiku contest simply…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Josef Sudek ? All soul’s day Giorno dei morti ? old graveyard the wake of silence on all the names vecchio camposanto la veglia del silenzio su tutti i nomi © A.M.

Originally posted on Harusame: miles away from my home village dandelion seeds Comment: this classic style ku combines the sense of melancholy and sadness (kanashimi 悲しみ) of the poet who is far from his home village with the fluffy dandelion seeds (tanpopo no wata 蒲公英の絮) carried by the wind. Like them, in fact, he had…

Originally posted on John Looks Out On Life: fallowed field covered in morning mist a child walks home

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 小鳥くるアボカドの種剥がすとき　　　渡邉美保 kotori kuru abokado no tane hagasu toki             a bird comes             when I remove a seed             from an avocado                                                 Miho Watanabe from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), December 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  ‘kotori…

Originally posted on Ontheland: windstorm the sounds of Munch’s scream paint the night . November dawn the furies still raging at my window . . ©️2019 Ontheland Image Credit: ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch, 1893, Public Domain