Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: I dream of huge white blossoms flaming and shooting off petals into the sky, turning it dark with flowery ash. Wondrous and a bit terrifying, this puzzle of my mind. ? Moon silvers the trees, green leaves pale in midnight glow— dreams waiting to bloom ?…

Originally posted on haiku tree: early morning street lamps glow flicker to sleep ?

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday challenge, a tanka, with all the syllables. Don’t know why, but that’s how it fell out. ? contentment lies here in pools of shade pools of sun pools where stream water glitters with mirror fish scales though the sky is pewter dull

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 草いきれ鉄材錆びて積まれけり　　杉田久女 kusaikire tetsuzai sabite tsumare keri             a smell of summer grass             iron materials rotten             and stuck up                                                             Hisajo Sugita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Hisajo Sugita (1890-1946)

#Haiku Happenings #4: Tia Haynes latest haiku appear in Presence!

Originally posted on Otata: Click on the link below to read otata 32 (August, 2018) Ξ Otata will come again one day late fall in the mountains — Santoka as translated by Burton Watson Otata mo aru hi wa kite kureru yama no aki fukaku As Watson notes, “Otata was a woman who went around…