Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: Try explaining haiku to someone who never heard of haiku. Yesterday I tried. The dental assistant gave me a blank stare when I quoted Basho’s old pond. A double blank stare when I shared an old one of mine: Garden snake / slipping out of / its knot Oh,…

Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: masks and ventilationfrom red to green to turquoise ravens build a new nest comfort of amethyst beadsprayers for intercessionI buy roses for the garden?holiness of natureturning the soil for plantingred flag fire warning

Originally posted on whimsy~mimsy: robins congregate along the mud puddle’s edge fluffing damp feathers

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 屋根赤き砂糖工場も暮春かな　　　石田破郷 yane akaki satô-kôba mo boshun kana ??????????? sugar factory ??????????? with a red roof… ??????????? spring dusk ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Hakyo Ishida from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? Hakyo Ishida (1913-1969)

Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: I have had “The Essential haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa” for a few years and have only really gotten to Basho.? But recently reading Issa, (Issa means Cup-of-Tea), ?the world of haiku opened up in ways I didn’t expect. What is remarkable about Issa’s poetry is the…