Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: last days of Marchsnowdrops and snowin morning sun

#Haiku Happenings #2: AL W GALLIA’s latest haiku! Searching for Serendipity our initials chiseledon the stream-side boulder…hungry brook trout swirl familiar trail…meandering alongside mememories of dadAl W Gallia View original post

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 妻子いま夕餉のころか初蛙　　　長谷川　櫂 saishi ima yûge no koro ka hatsu-gaeru ??????????? my wife and child ??????????? may eat dinner now… ??????????? first frogs ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Kai Hasegawa from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006

Originally posted on Innerdialects: haibun Jia’s lemon tea is red with leaf brew. It is like her : all pressured to be a safe mom. Her 2 year old isn’t speaking yet, she worries. (We meet for the first time through a mutual friend. The child has a face like a waiting dawn: fascinated I…

Originally posted on SCRAMBLED, NOT FRIED: It’s Haibun Monday again, and American Haikai Master Frank J Tassone asks us to join him at the dVerse Poets Pub and create/share a Haibun (prose/haiku combo) incorporating some reference to ‘Pressure’… ———[||]——— Direct Pressure He tries to remember his training, even though it’s probably already too late. He…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For the dverse prompt. I have felt the weight of water, of clouds full of rain, of night sky, starless, black with cloud, of aches in the heart and the head and the bones, of all that we’ve lost, never had, still to do, the weight of the problems…