#Haiku Happenings #6: Tia Haynes’ latest haiku receives an Honorable Menstion for the US in the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational 2019!

Originally posted on haiku tree: cold night sky chimneys puff curls of smoke ?

Originally posted on AshiAkira's Blog: Blooming to its full A lone camellia flower Red burns on the bush

Originally posted on Akita International Haiku Network: INTRODUCTION 日本語の案内は英文の下にあります The Akita International Haiku, Senryū, and Tanka Network organized the Japan-Russia Haiku Contest with great success for 7 years. This tri-lingual (Japanese, Russian, and English) contest always yielded beautiful poetry from poets all over the world. This year, however, we are re-launching the haiku contest simply…

Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Josef Sudek ? All soul’s day Giorno dei morti ? old graveyard the wake of silence on all the names vecchio camposanto la veglia del silenzio su tutti i nomi © A.M.

Originally posted on Harusame: miles away from my home village dandelion seeds Comment: this classic style ku combines the sense of melancholy and sadness (kanashimi 悲しみ) of the poet who is far from his home village with the fluffy dandelion seeds (tanpopo no wata 蒲公英の絮) carried by the wind. Like them, in fact, he had…