#Haiku Happenings #1 (12/24/19): Tessa’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Gales, rain and sirens, but not the singing kind. We’re not in the flood plain… https://actu.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/marmande_47157/inondations-lot-garonne-garonne-placee-vigilance-jaune-dans-secteur-marmande-tonneins_30375005.html ? sirens sound again as the river rises and flood waters spread we listen to the rain and the ditches running

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/rosenblatt-1874042_1280.jpg winter rain fallingpattering on russet leavesa calm peace within Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Seven Days Before Christmas 1

#Haiku Happenings #7: Debbie Strange’s latest haiku receives Honourable Mention in the IHS’ International Haiku Competition 2019! soft rime a chickadee’s song becomes visible Honourable Mention 12th IHS, International Haiku Competition 2019 Warp and Weft ~ Images and Words: Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2019

Originally posted on Ontheland: At first I skirt around the Requiem. I am looking for music by Fauré that is as beautiful as the Pavane I heard the other day, but I am not sure I am in the mood for somber choral music. Clicking on the options, the Requiem’s closing section, In Paradisum, plays…

Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ハンカチをていねいに折り冬菫　　　　桂　信子 hankachi o teinei ni ori fuyusumire             folding a handkerchief             with a well manner             winter violet                                                 Nobuko Katsura from “Nihon Dai-Saijiki” (“Japanese Comprehensive Saijiki”), edited by Shuoshi Mizuhara, Shuson Kato, and Kenkichi Yamamoto, published by Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1981 Fay’s Note: …