Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 近道をとりても遠き城薄暑　　　田淵さく羅 chikamichi o toritemo tôki shiro hakusho             the castle still far             even I take a short cut…             early summer heat                                                 Sakura Tabuchi from ‘Haiku,’ a monthly haiku magazine, May 2016 Issue, Kabushiki Kaisha Kadokawa, Tokyo

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. The word is ‘fawn’. night visitors hart barks and gathers hinds and fawns shadows pass through the long grass stripping the apple trees

Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: ancient lilacscover the gravesMemorial Day memoriesof memorieslilacs in bloom knowingthey cannot staybut will returnlilacs “ancient lilacs” was published in?SMILE?(edited/published by Joyce M. Johnson); and?Humoresque (for the?United Amateur Press Association of America,?edited/published by?Jean Calkins). Poems to share again – thank you. Ellen Grace Olinger

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: all night rain falling through my dreams ? by Maureen Sudlow  (New Zealand) Wales Haiku Journal, 2018

#Haiku Happenings #4: Mark Redfearn’s latest haiku! Memorial Day—   the first lieutenant’s children   weep beside his grave. — Read on markmredfearn.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/6237/