Category: haiku community

  • Haiku – Pat Kopanda

    Originally posted on Prairie Writers Guild – NW Indiana: when Barbara went her garden went with her cross-legged on the grass the Little League-r picks clover waiting for a ball coyotes harmonize with the train whistle the night silence gone ? Haiku by Pat Kopanda. Photograph below by Frank Hubeny. Field of Sunflowers at Willow…

  • My Daily #Haiku (9/3/19)

    9/3/19: bushclover staff development no time for bushclover in the Bronx #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Haiku – Blithe Spirit

    Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? laughing gulls the wind pushes me into the sea ? ? river moon the silent lights of a narrow boat ? ? moth dust a smudge of moon through drifting clouds ? Blithe Spirit vol 29 number 3 August 2019 ISSN 1353-3320

  • Today’s Haiku (September 3, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 静かなる午前を了へぬ桐一葉    加藤楸邨 shizuka naru gozen o oenu kiri hitoha    quiet morning ended… one paulownia leaf                                                             Shuson Kato from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:   Shuson Kato (1905-1993)

  • Snapshot of Autumn

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: Frank Tassone’s haikai prompt this week is autumn comtemplation (shuushi). I will contemplate this idea more later, but these are my first musings.  Brown leaf tumbles down Crinkles, crunches underfoot Ground has a blanket Tree branches shivering cold Amid changing, frigid wind ? Update: Here is a haiku that is a…

  • This Deep Breath

    Another summer, gone in the blink of an eye. Another September, whose arrival signals the beginning of the next school year. The red rocks of Sedona have become the fleeting images of memory and the still photos in the cloud. The hoodoos of Bryce, the overarching granite of Zion and Yosemite, the ever-present San Franscisco…

  • Tanka: Late Summer Mountain

    Tanka: Late Summer Mountain

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for Carpe Diem!

  • Today’s Haiku (September 2, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ひぐらしに肩のあたりのさみしき日   草間時彦 higurashi ni kata no atari no samishiki hi  evening cicada  today’s loneliness around my shoulder                                                             Tokihiko Kusama from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:  Tokihiko Kusama (1920-2003)