Originally posted on Tao-Talk: i. Butterfly stuffings Sail in cold October gusts – Murder of crows wait. Wood bones, tattered skin dances Hat rolls between stalks — crows feast. ? ii. Long past dark stands guard Featureless-faced effigy Crows sleep, hunter moon Sun’s melted frost, eyeless tears Crows build shelter from his guts ? Frank…

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: traveling alone long road through empty farm fields scarecrow companion This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #109: Scarecrow. Image source: Library of Congress Chinese soldier and scarecrow, by Kiyochika Kubayashi (edited here)

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A gogyohka sequence for Frank Tassone’s weekly challenge in the field a tattered man of sticks and rags silent stands beneath a sky heavy with crows ? heavy clay the orange earth and sky grey slicked with orange light furrowed field full of crows no bundle of sticks will…

Originally posted on John Looks Out On Life: broken promise in a far away country children cry

Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: train window– moon from home comes along all the way   by arvinder kaur (India) Asahi Haikuist Network, Jan. 15, 2016

Originally posted on Heed not Steve: cooler days – a songbird in our olive tree —- © Steve Mitchell 2019