Category: haiku community

  • summer bites

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Janice’s latest #haiku!

  • 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

    Haiku Happenings #1: Jules’ latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!   creekside, bay or ocean… a twig for a mast a leaf for a sail in a cicada’s eve song summer fades, vacations end becoming treasured memory ©JP/dh   via 7.31 (s) creekside, bay or ocean… /twiglet/ haikai/

  • “A Nice Game of Chess”: A #dversepoets #quadrille #haibun

      White moves King’s pawn to E4. Black answers with Queen’s knight to F6. I process combinations.  My opponent runs sub-routines.   A flurry of moves. Pawns fall, Bishops pin, Queens clash.   Until the puzzle is complete.   pale sun afternoon — victory   for dVerse Poets Quadrille #61 (pubtended by Mish)      …

  • Haibun: Ghost Cat

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: The cat in the picture is my boy Sam Cat the Ripper.  I had to have him euthanized last October due to a huge tumor growing on his heart.  He lived a happy life.  This was his favorite place to lie in the yard.  A quadrille is a form unique…

  • Daily Haiku: July 30, 2018

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear on Daily Haiku today! rose garden another stab of envy Rachel Sutcliffe (UK) Frogpond, 38:3, Autumn 2015 https://wp.me/pX5cN-2ji

  • So What

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Newport Jazz Festival 1958. The year that accelerated jazz into a new era. The white race was catching sight at black music, and Anita O’Day, white as snow, swinging “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Tea for Two”. Fashion was cool, simple and stylish. It was high-level art and completely irresistible.…

  • Triune Journeys: a #writephoto #haibun

      It could be a path between fields in the backcountry of Portugal’s Trans os Montes. Or a trail across the frontier between Mexico and the American Southwest. Or a dirt road in a high, dry summer somewhere in mountains lying outside the Temperate zone.   Perhaps I walk the path to inspect inherited land.…

  • ‘stories’

    Originally posted on Stella Pierides: stories we tell ourselves… blood moon