Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? blackberry moon the clench of his fists ? dream-eater her nibbled down nails have nothing left to give ? woodpecker he picks at my faults ? ? black-eyed Susan I should have left him the first time ? Previously published: Failed Haiku Senryu Journal, September 1 2016 ? the…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Today I saved a baby vole from the jaws of death and saw it scuttle away, I saw a jay have trouble with a giant katydid, watched a pair of flycatchers catching…flies, found a tiny frog that had made its way right up to the house sheltering from the…

Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: “It is hard to say good-bye to beloved flesh,” Madeleine L’Engle writes in Two-Part-Invention. It is also hard to say good-bye to beloved places. One of the tiny public schools where I taught was no longer able to retain all the teachers on staff. Funding was scarce. Because I…

Originally posted on weird laburnum: prophet-blue ears make up the desert on 20 TVs the same bombing of a mayfly as a tree (alder) T took his hat off at noon and midnight where the stream bends sound continue in straight line you can tell it’s a swan by its reflection that need to understand…

Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: hydrangea bush — each day now great bunches of blue *    *    *    *

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: a man reads the news considers independence questions its value a country of open arms building walls on its borders This tanka is a response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #92: Independence, in which Frank discusses Independence Day in the United States and how it’s  seen under a new light, considering…