Originally posted on Heed not Steve: evening distracted –a moth on the walland another moth —— © Steve Mitchell 2021

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: fireflies … where have you all gone my childhood friends (Тhe 31st ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest Sponsors’ Award, 2020) ホタル どこに行ったの 私の幼なじみ an old loner in search of a mate spring in the heart (Second place Australian Haiku Society Winter Kukai 2020, seasonal kigo category) 年老いた孤独な人…

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: drought my ears have lost the creek       by Sandi Pray (USA) The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIX, No. 3, 2017  

Originally posted on the other bunny: I‘m thinking about making a new will; pandemics do that to you. Father of course has to get in on the act; dead for 30 years, but I just have to close my eyes for a rest and there he is. In this dream, he’s actually just died and,…

Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: flash point the rain drifts further away

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 八月やヒロシマナガサキわれに水　　　小檜山繁子 hachigatsu ya hiroshima nagasaki ware ni mizu ??????????? August— ??????????? Hiroshima, Nagasaki ??????????? and water for me ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Shigeko Kobiyama from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006