Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: As a young child, she kept hearing aunts and uncles saying, she had so and so’s hair, and so and so’s smile and what’s her name’s eyes. It puzzled and frustrated her so much. It made her feel as if every part of her was second hand. Who…

Originally posted on Bending moments: cherry blossom buds the simmering regrets i dwell on ? ? ? I’m not sure, are you? Let’s discuss ambiguity. Source: Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, Ambiguity

Originally posted on haiku tree: broken branches the hummingbirds keep flying ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 玄関を出てあきかぜと呟きぬ　　　池田澄子 genkan o dete akikaze to tsubuyakinu             out from the front door             I whisper             ‘autumn wind’                                                 Sumiko Ikeda from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), February 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

#Haiku Happenings #3: Scott Metz presents a haiku by Michael O’Brien!