Category: haikai
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My Daily #Haiku (11/4/19)
11/4/19: woodpecker breaking dawn hammering in the backyard a woodpecker haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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#SilentSunday (11/3/19)
And now, a rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
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A November with Basho, Day 3
On the first day of the fourth moon, climbed to visit the shrines on a mountain once called Two Wildernesses, renamed by Kukai when he dedicated the shrine. Perhaps he saw a thousand years into the future, this shrine under sacred skies, his compassion endlessly scattered through the eight directions, falling equally, peacably, on all…
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A November with Basho, Day 2
Very Early on the twenty-seventh morning of the third moon, under a predawn haze, transparent moon barely visible, Mount Fuji just a shadow, I set out under the cherry blossoms of Ueno and Yanaka. When would I see them again?… Spring passes and the birds cry out– tears in the eyes of fishes Sam Hamill…
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#Haikai Challenge #111 (11/2/19): withering wind (kogarashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Here’s to hoping that you survived your scary season, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Jade Li/Lisa3. Dwight L. Roth4. Judy Dykstra-Brown5. Reena Saxena 6. Peter7. Revived Writer8. Indira9. Janice (Ontheland)10. Tessa 11. Susan Zutautas12. Frank J. Tassone13. Christine Bialczak14. Kerfe Roig Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! November.…
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Confessing a Reading Interrupted (my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun)
Ilana’s memoir lies on top of a pile of Family Circle magazines. In all the time we worked together… … I only read half. My un-replied email August crickets first published in Image Curve, October 31, 2019
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My Daily #Haiku (11/2/19)
11/2/19: flag last foliage a flag-raising at sunrise haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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A November with Basho, Day 1
Poet Jane Dougherty led us on a November journey in 2017, when she hosted a W.B Yeats challenge in lieu of #NaNoWriMo. Inpired by her example, I have decided to embark on a comparable journey. This november I will post excerpts from “The Narrow Road to the Interior” (Translation by Sam Hamill) by master poet…
