Category: haiku community
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Haibun: I Am a Gardener
Originally posted on Magical Mystical Teacher: Several years ago excruciating back pain kept me out of my classroom for the three days. Much can happen, not all of it good, in three days. ? According to the biblical story of creation, green growing things appeared on Earth on the third day: “…the earth brought forth…
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How to Write a Haiku Poem
#Haiku Happenings #5: Colleen Chesebro offers a primer on writing haiku!
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sizzle – – haiku
Originally posted on Ontheland: midsummer the sizzle of water on earth . . Midsummer is the theme of this week’s Haikai Challenge. Where I live, in Ontario, the approaching summer solstice (June 21) is the first official day of summer. In some traditions the solstice is considered a time of ‘midsummer’ celebrations. Under ‘midsummer’ Wikipedia…
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My Daily #Haiku (6/19/19)
6/19/19: gates when last I heard “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” morning rain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Crowskin
Originally posted on Shore/lines: Slowly, I come to. First fingers. Then arms, legs and toes. From somewhere a torso appears, topped by a head. The pain takes a little longer to arrive. But when it does the body is gathered in a cocoon of ringing muscles and tightening skin. Eyelids flicker. Hands reach for water…
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‘strong current’ 60/100 #haikufeltings
Originally posted on Stella Pierides: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/strong-current-small.jpg
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Summer Solstice
#Haiku Happenings #1 (6/19/19): Reena’s latest #senryu for Carpe Diem!
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First Guitar, our Latest Decoration: a #quadrille #haibun for #dversepoets
The ESP shines in the corner. When I first received that high school graduation present, I could not put it down. I routinely played Pentatonic scales, jazz fusion riffs and blues chord progressions in the basement. How many nights did I play Led Zepplin’s Black Dog or Pink Floyd’s “Wish you were here?” How many…
