Originally posted on Tao-Talk: This Spring, in addition to bluebirds nesting in one of their boxes, there are two pair of ducks and a pair of sandhill cranes nesting along the ponds out back. I’ve seen the ducks take flight on my walks. The cranes have strategically placed their nest in an area that is…

#Haiku Happenings #1 (5/26/21): Jules’ latest #haibun for my current #Haikai Challenge! Untied Pier Builders We sketched the drawing on a napkin at the bar. A circus of ideas; what pieces to buy, tools to find. Pulling from our memories, working with the games we played as children. Remembering the feel of the pull and…

#Haiku Happenings #3: Sky’s latest haiku!

Originally posted on K.: I drift inside dream rivers open and wild with singing, flowing through unexplored dimensions into rough horizonless seas.? How will I cross? My vessel waits, slowly filling with circular light. in between what andif sail the indigo nightgardens of the moon A haibun with the theme “flower moon” for Frank at…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 起立礼着席青葉風過ぎた　　　神野紗季 kiritsu rei chakuseki aoba-kaze sugita ??????????? “stand up, bow, sit down” ??????????? green-leafed wind ??????????? passed ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Saki Kouno from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:?? Before the class starts, school students bow to their teachers, while one of…