Category: haiku community

  • haiku: his mother’s death…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . his mother’s death they talk of many things wand’ring in the woods ? ? ? ? .

  • A Commune of Castaways? (a #kyokaprose #haibun)

    I can already hear Sting singing the refrain. But what if this is the first of a hundred-million bottled messages? Perhaps the inter-connectivity social media platforms promised us has only further isolated us? Maybe we are all “castaways, looking for a home.” Will I open the bottle? Or do I leave it in the sand?…

  • An island in the Baltic

    Originally posted on the other bunny: Loved by millions of people. It is cruel in return. Still people send postcards from there. Get married there. That kind of thing. Also there a few trees. And sometimes migrating birds – that poop. Good. you spit on the grass the fish becoming green The week has been…

  • Strand

    Originally posted on haiku tree: stars in the trees a strand of wishes ?

  • Today’s Haiku (August 21, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 水を見てゐて沢蟹を見失ふ  対中いずみ mizu o miteite sawagani o miushinau             looking at water             I lose a sight             of a river crab                                                 Izumi Tainaka from “Haiku Shiki” (“Haiku Four Seasons,” a monthly haiku magazine), August 2017 Issue, Tokyo Shiki Shuppan, Tokyo ?

  • “lawnmowing…” a #tanka (8/21/19)

    8/21/19: leaf shapes lawnmowing all the various shapes of these fallen leaves a hint of Autumn air even while cicadas sing #tanka #micropoetry #poetr

  • Podul japonez – Le pont japonais – Japanese bridge

    Originally posted on PHOENIX: Podul japonez – umbra pictorului printre nuferi Le pont japonais – l’ombre du peintre parmi les nénuphars Japanese bridge – among water lilies painter’s shadow Haiku : Virginia Popescu (Monet in his garden, 1905)

  • Réka Nyitrai (Romania)

    Originally posted on Harusame: water lily… the face I had before my birth Comment: a haiku with Zen tones in which the second ku is occupied by a variant of the following well-known kōan 公案: ‘What did your face look like before your parents were born?’ The answer to the question lies in overcoming every…