Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 梅干して人は日陰にかくれけり　　　中村汀女 ume hoshite hito wa hikage ni kakurekeri             drying plums             she retreats herself             in the shade                                                 Teijo Nakamura from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Teijo Nakamura (1900-1988)   ‘ume hosu’ (drying plums) is a summer kigo

Originally posted on Rooted in Love: As the hills slept the city awakened, its little fires scattered like stardust over the breasts of the earth.

Originally posted on Grahn Song: mind games . . .playing catch with the sonI never had

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/glowing-284152_1280.jpg smoldering still day clouds hang low in desert sky yearning for release Frank J. Tassone: Haikai Challenge #95 Smoldering

Originally posted on the other bunny: Calibri reminds me of Ma. What you see is what you get. Sans fuss. caricatures trying to undoodle mid-life crises She can make the serif seem a tad too lugubrious. And can effortlessly raise the bar a point or two without sounding overtly formal (gosh, you can almost hear…

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/aging-carousel-small.jpg

Originally posted on Ontheland: birdfoot trefoil smoldering yellow over scorched grass . Closeup of birdfoot trefoil which spreads as a wild ground cover ©️2019 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #95 – smoldering hot