Category: haiku community

  • A Little Light Defiance

    I hear your laughter, you coming darkness. I hold my tongue at your mockery of our quavering, as daylight diminishes with each passing day. I bear your taunts about how hope dwindles with your growing deluge. Because the joke is on you. I light one candle, and you cringe. For all your black might, you…

  • Achievement

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/anniversary-2x.png Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 9 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging. Three favorite poems: clouds and yetenough lightto fill a jam jarwith the lastof the carnations poems we readagain and againwashing an old platethe patternstill new roses…

  • WELCOME…

    Originally posted on kiwissoar: This week’s challenge in Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille is candlelight… candlelight shining on snow nearly home

  • Winter Oak

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: ? Majestic oak sits Cold and alone //  Sparkling Waiting for Christmas Frozen fenceposts decorate Snow-covered fields // Nature’s Gift ****************** Photo: Dwight L. Roth

  • “Christmas feasts…” a #tanka (12/19/18)

    12/19/18: feasts Christmas feasts A niece’s turn to host the whole family How her aunts ignore all counsel to change #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiku – City sidewalk tastes

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? cupped hands— the cool taste of a sidewalk fountain ? A Sense of Place: City sidewalk tastes, December 19, 2018 Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/12/19/a-sense-of-place-city-sidewalk-taste/?fbclid=IwAR0ykTmli5YewVTHzh16mFJNTMDIjmgLT-gmbmIxpm0ZyIPt7foxXdjDxEk

  • Today’s Haiku (December 18, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 駅を出て先づ逢ふポインセチアかな  大久保白村 eki o dete mazu au poinsechia kana             first thing I meet             after exiting the station…             poinsettias                                                 Hakuson Okubo from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine), March 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo

  • Solstice

    Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/2012-09-28_20-28-57-waxing-gibbous-moon-14c.jpg Photo: Thomas Breeson winter solstice wings soaring through the blackened sky waxing gibbous moon #Haikai Challenge # 65: https://frankjtassone.com/2018/12/15/haikai-challenge-65-12-15-18-solstice-ii-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/