Originally posted on haiku tree: angled shadows bend the trees sunset ?

Originally posted on K.: Every year fall foliage surprises us with its clichés. Fibers yellow on the edges, becoming brittle and brown. Scarlet fire burns itself into a colorless ash. Memory preserves the departed colors, waiting in darkness. We have been to this place many times before and yet still it catches us, wheeling us…

Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Written In Response To: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #107 (10/510): fall foliage (red leaves(momiji)).  Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to foliage (red leaves (momiji)). dawn of foliage red leaves awaken heart’s beat blood burns Autumn’s fire ~ * ~…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 日本語の違う父と娘夜長かな　   宮崎斗士 nihongo no chigau chichi to ko yonaga kana             different kinds of Japanese             spoken by father and daughter…             autumn long night                                                             Toshi Miyazaki from “Sonna Ao” (That Kind of Blue), haiku collection of Toshi Miyazaki, Rikka Shorin, Tokyo 2014 ?