Originally posted on qbit: “At four in the morning my body bumped against the ceiling” – Jim Harrison ? Sven taught me how to get coffee ready for when we were pulling on our boots to go milk the cows. First, start water boiling in the kettle, then tear open a bag of grounds and…

Originally posted on Ontheland: dark summer day air clings to humidity clouds hoard the rain ~ the beans grow inches no time lapse movie needed when summer rains ~ in mid-summer rain a green umbrella rises young sunflower stems ~ ©️2018 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #39 mid-summer rain

Originally posted on revivedwriter: The word for Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt this week is samidare, which is Japanese for “midsummer rain.” My birthday was this week, and it was an incredibly emotional day. Twenty-fifth birthday Not as happy as before: It’s a summer rain ?

Originally posted on Zander In Print: Cradling coffee lean against the granite wall umbrella at home Taxis and buses dank popularity choosing wet shoes Sparrows tear croissants shake the rain, fluff the puff breakfast on the fly Deluging sheets fall from seventeenth floor, pock the sidewalk; birds forage. Z for Frank J. Tassone’s Challenge #39…

Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: through the fine sprays of the garden hose a rainbow Pat R 6/26/18

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 複線より単線が好きかたつむり　　川崎益太郎 fukusen yori tansen ga suki katatsumuri             it prefers a single track             to a double track…             a snail                                                 Masutaro Kawasaki from “Haiku-kai” (“Haiku World,” a monthly haiku magazine) ,  March 2017 Issue,  Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo