Originally posted on Ontheland: Montreal, the city where my parents and two youngest siblings moved in the seventies…a home visited over the years…the place where both my parents died. One of our first Montreal excursions was to the top of Mount Royal where there is a giant cross. It was a hot, sweaty ascent on…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: dark times are coming walking with the misty rain across brown winter fields crows herald the night before the deluge ? moments chewed from the light swallowed by the dark anguish at each sinking sun ? wait a while hold breath against the deepening cold watch the morning break…

#Haiku Happenings #2: Colleen Chesbro’s latest #haiga! https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/12/13/red-bird-haiga/

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: Friday the 13th – he reminisces about Thursday the 12th —- © Steve Mitchell 2019

Originally posted on Ontheland: Rock cliffs towered along the banks of the Saguenay Fjord as the tour boat guide shouted into the wind. He beckoned us to peer far above at the renowned Statue of Our Lady of the Saguenay placed there in 1881 by a man grateful to have survived his fall into river…

Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Some folks complain about change in their lives. Others want to go back to the good old days. But, there are some things we would not want to go back to, such as outhouses on a cold winter day. We take indoor plumbing and toilets as a given, when we…

Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: I am very early in the formal study of haiku….but!  The impact of writing through direct observation keeps you in the moment.  Maybe. – Some Random Haiku The koi are hungry Orange mouths gulp green water Good the algae grows – Spring robins watch- Quarrelsome beasts these birds! They…