Category: haiku community

  • Haiku Dialogue: What’s at Hand Week 16

    Originally posted on Bending moments: autumn squall… the aimless wandering of an empty beer can ? What is the nature of emptiness? Source: Haiku Dialogue: What’s at Hand Week 16

  • Peace: a #TankaProse

    A still pond. Canopies of maple, oak, white birch and pine reflect without blemish across it. Then the first drop falls. Ripples radiate out. More drops; more ripples, overlapping each other. The perfect reflection becomes a wavering array of verdant images twisted on an ever-trembling membrane. Soon, a blurry, raincloud gray is all the pond…

  • Under Visible Fashions

    Originally posted on Burn The Water: I’m walking through Loughborough. Just the other side of the town centre, Swan Street, I meet an example of one of my favourite type of involuntary painting, a series of photographs outside a barber shop showing various styles of hair that for a small price and a pointless but…

  • there will be a time…

    Originally posted on Ontheland: in 5 to 8 billion years when the sun dies–as stars do not live forever–and when the sun explodes, planet earth will dissolve into space … sleep a cosmic dress rehearsal – will anyone count the last day of the last year? . . ©️2019 Ontheland What will happen to earth…

  • Haibun 187

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: pass me a rainbow some of my generation are ex-hippies. me i just stayed one. even through many straight configurations that most people cannot imagine. even my years in banking they all knew there was something wrong with me. but i seriously think that is why they kept me and…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/18/19)

    5/18/19: tarot cards harvest moon a tarot card reading she fails to finish #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Tanka Presentation For The Curious

    Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? I wrote this essay for a now-gone poetry group.  Poetry groups blossom and wither, but there is always something you learn. ? The morning wren sings I stand in the moonlit dawn Kimono wrapped close Last night I made my peace Now free from all attachments Lady Nyo…

  • Special Offer for Followers and Readers of The Daily Haiku

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Thank you to everyone who has written fabulous comments about my book, Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All. Further, thank you to the more than 75 reviewers and editors for their outstanding reviews! Whenever authors publish how-to writing guides, they should do it because they feel there is…