Category: haiku community

  • Today’s Haiku (January 11, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 蒲団干す未来へ旅に出るごとく  しなだしん futon hosu mirai e tabi ni deru gotoku             drying futon             as if making a trip             to the future                                                 Shin Shinada from ‘Hayabusa no Mune’(‘Falcon’s Chest’) haiku collection by Shin Shinada, Fusansu-Do, Tokyo 2011 Fay’s Note:  ‘futon hosu’ (drying (airing?) futon’…

  • Ephemerae, 2018

    Originally posted on My Inner Voice: bittersweet of cherry tomatoes on my tongue the lingering memories of my stepmother ephemerae (issue 3 Winter 2018)

  • My Daily #Haiku (1/11/19)

    1/11/19: apricot January wind how many days until apricot blossoms? #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • windless

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: windless night the endless glide of silent clouds

  • 11.

    Originally posted on Haiku 2019: she sits alone modest lines show her age boat or woman, both

  • Ito En Semifinalist Poems 2018

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (1/11/19): Barbara Kaufmann’s Ito En 2018 semfinalist haiku!

  • Hematologist Follow-up

    Another doctor’s office. The same sterile scent and antiseptic odor in the exam room. Light-wood paneling, natural setting, photos on the wall, white Formica countertops. All to find out if my medication has begun to kill me. smiling nurse –the back of her neckshows a tattoo first published in Image Curve, January 10, 2019 Photo…

  • January: a haibun

    Originally posted on Ontheland: This January I find myself surrendering to winter, adapting to the calls of sleep, oven casseroles, and layers of cotton, wool and polyester—layers worn and taken off with changes in damp and chill. Dreams, no resolutions, but hazy sightings of possibility accompany me under layers of comforters. They nestle within as…