Category: haiku community
-
Today’s Haiku (November 12, 2019)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 火を恋ふや独逸腸詰薄く切り 宮下恵美子 hi o kou ya doitsu chôzume usuku kiri yearning for a fire— I slice German sausages into thin pieces Emiko Miyashita from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note: ‘hi o kou’ (yearn for a…
-
Tanka: Beaver Moon
#Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
-
My Daily #Haiku (11/12/19)
11/12/19: clouds Autumn chill a buildup of clouds bearing snow #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
-
Daily Haiku: Nov. 12, 2019
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn deepens . . . a passenger squirrels away his season ticket Alan Summers (UK) Bacopa Literary Review, June 2019
-
One Accord
Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: still in time unmoved harmonious ~ * ~ Photo Credit: Pinterest ?
-
Veteran’s Day 2019
Originally posted on K.: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? fathers of fathers a photograph, a silence— echoes enduring My father and his father drawn from a photo–circa World War II. Must have been right before my father left for Europe. My grandfather remained in the States for the Second World War. He also served in…
-
A November with Basho, Day 11
Here (Hiraizumi) three generations of the Fujiwara clan passed as though in a dream. The great outer gates lay in runis. Where Hidehira’s manor stood, rice fields grew. Only Mount Kinkei remained. I climbed the hill where Yoshitsune died; I saw the Kitakami, a broad stream flowing down through the Nambu plain, the Koromo River…
-
“The Passion of Japanese Poetry”
Originally posted on Lady Nyo's Weblog: ? Brave man like the catalpa bow That, once drawn, Does not slacken- Can it be that he is unable to bear The vicissitudes of love? —-Anonymous ? This is one of my favorite poems of the Man’yoshu. I used it as a heading in an episode of the …
