Category: haiku community

  • Fingernail Moon

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Barbara Kaufmann’s haiku appears in Tiny Words!

  • Lest We Forget

    #Haiku Happenings #1 (11/14/18): Helene’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • Contemplation: A #TBT #TankaProse (11/13/18)

      Go within your inner room. Close the door. Quiet; be still. Breathe. Follow your breath while you spiral through the nautilus shell. Breathe.   Find that ever-elusive still point. Breathe.   Now, listen to the utter silence beyond and within every sound: a golden lab’s bark, a passing jet, the labor of your breath…

  • Today #tanka #haiku

    Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): It’s a slate grey day Relentless cold rain beats down Summer is long gone I want to go through a book Curled up on a nice warm couch * See the wet cool words Mild but not agreeable November showers *** Written for Colleen’s Poetry challenge.  Each week she…

  • Great War?

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt for this week, when we write in honor of the armistice. Did not end all wars Such senseless death — no man’s land Mourn the armistice

  • What I see

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Suzanne’s latest #haibun!

  • Memorial Stone: A .@ImageCurve #haibun

    Mom and I see the headstone. Salmon, just as we chose. Smooth on top and along the sides, it emerges from a rough base of the same hue. Scattered grass grows on the flattened earth six feet in front of it. We remove the in-ground matching vases. Struggle to insert the simple bouquets we bought…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 13, 2018)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 秋風鈴忘れ上手に生きてをり  渡井恵子 akifûrin wasurejyôzu ni ikiteori             autumn wind chime             it is good at forgetting             and continues to live                                                             Shigeko Watai from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo