Category: haiku community

  • Tessa Dean’s “#Haikai Challenge #195-197 (Trifecta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga”

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Tessa Dean’s latest haiku for my current #Haikai Challenge!

  • Jade Li’s “#Haikai Challenge #197, #195, #196 (Trifecta) haibun series”

    Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Each night in June, I’ve added an addendum to my prayers to please be awakened in the night to the sounds of thunder. Paling leaves wiltin sol’s hot white stare —fish wriggle dry ponds.   Where we have had a weeks-long drought, plants and bird baths needed daily attention. Three days…

  • #Haikai Challenge #195-197 (Trifecta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you refreshed yourselves, haijin! Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Li/Lisa in W MI USA 3. Jules4. Goutam Dutta 5. Revived Writer6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! I stumbled through a busy June. Here we are, three weeks since the last #Haikai…

  • rain-silence

    Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: Photo by Karl – July 2020 rain-silencehow well dayliliesand hosta grow Photo by Karl – July 2019 rain-silenceand June reflectionswork on a new book And he shall be like a tree?planted by the rivers of water,that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;his leaf also shall not wither;and…

  • Today’s Haiku (June 26, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 百の手が挙がりて神輿宙に舞ふ   田島和生 hyaku no te ga agarite mikoshi chû ni mau ??????????? a hundred hands up ??????????? festival “mikoshi” ??????????? dance in the air ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Kazuo Tajima from Haiku-kai (Haiku World), July 2017 Issue, Bungaku No Mori, Tokyo Fay’s Note:  “mikoshi” (literal translation:  God’s palanquin) is…

  • 2502

    Originally posted on Cat Nap Revue: she slams doorsand windows, toomidnight wind

  • Nightmares like this: a #Tankaprose

    A respectable woman, sipping tea with others women of her station, exchanging chuckles and pleasantries. No one remarked when she excuses herself from their company after a certain server passed by. She passes through the crowded chamber, down the labyrinthine corridors of the grand vessal, until she comes to a small, cramped chamber. A brief…

  • Originally posted on elancharan gunasekaran: night’s rain the full moon readies her body