Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: (c) Clr ’19 Time and time again Cold creeps into the night Summer’s end Time and time again Seasons return on schedule Fall’s vivid colours Cold creeps into the night Blessed with sun and warmth Last day of Summer summer’s end leaving with a last hurrah tropical weekend…

Originally posted on Poet's Corner: Its autumn apex takes the sun lower each day as northwards I face Summer ends but heat remains in that strength daily Save for lesser time Shadows fall early So now I must make the most of a fading sun ©Jemverse

#Haiku Happenings #9: Tia Haynes’ latest #senryu appears in the Haiku North America 2019 Anthology!

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: ? The temperature touched 97°F today and still no rain. The well water is more difficult to reach, twenty-five feet down and a chore to pull up by hand. This morning, in one of the buckets, swimming feebly but valiantly, was a froglet. This year’s froglets, we see them…

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: On my last job, managing a siding warehouse, I met Mr. Ed. He was a fine gentleman of a generation gone by. He was our driver and delivery person. We found a lot in common and in between trips sat in rocking chairs talking about a little bit of everything.…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/tree-4478808_1280.jpg “There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s.” ― Ed Gorman, Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool long and winding road leading to gilded sunset~ blackbirds chasing light

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 宦官が消えるがごとく木の実降る　　渡辺誠一郎 kangan ga kieru ga gotoku konomi furu             as though eunuchs             would disappear             nuts fall from a tree                                                 Sei’ichiro Watanabe from “Ganymede”, Vol. 62, December 1, 2014 issue,  Dorinsha, Tokyo, Japan