Originally posted on K.: night wears luminous scales—I feel its pulses through invisible nets time resolves into kinship– everything opened, laid bare what has been follows like a shadow, until it too is discarded stitched into shining patterns ancient and always brand new A double tanka in honor of August’s Sturgeon Moon for Colleen’s #TankaTuesday…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: image ©Radoslaw Ziomber a rain of stars falls on the thirsty earth portents ? watching the sky listening to hunting owls calling down the stars ? from moonset to cockcrow I watch the star blanket shift learning to let go

Originally posted on haiku tree: monsoon quails huddle and coo behind the shed ?

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 燕の子眠し食ひたし雷起る　　　西東三鬼 tsubame no ko nemushi kuitashi rai okoru             baby swallows             sleepy, but hungry…             a thunder comes                                                 Sanki Saito from “Gendai Saijiki” (“Modern Saijiki”), edited by Tohta Kaneko, Momoko Kuroda and Ban’ya Natsuishi, Seisei Shyuppan, Tokyo, 1997 Fay’s Note:   Sanki Saito (1900-1962)

Originally posted on Grahn Song: we found each otherin that momentbreaking over the rails,that moment that swept usinto the sea If stumbling into misadventure is an art form then we mastered it long ago. Yes, time has passed, and yes, the distance between us is greater than ever. Still, I remember our love of music,…

Originally posted on Ontheland: August moon sailing on high thunderbolts propelling summer dreams toward their destiny . . ©️2019 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #99 Sturgeon Moon