A Peony outside my den window   Thank you for honoring our fallen veterans, haijin! Special gratitude to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Zander 5. Jules #2 6. Linda Lee Lyberg 7. Jane Dougherty 8. Jules #3 9. Revived Writer Powered…

courtesy of The Old Farmers Alamanc   Are we warm enough yet, haijin? The prelude to summer struck this weekend in New York, where the current temperature is in the mid-eighties! You withstood the heat and came through with your haikai!   Congratulations to last week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke /…

  Staying Dry, haijin? I hope so! Honestly, I had no idea how prescient my kigo of last week would be! No matter the precipitation, however, you came through!   Congratulations, contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Xenia Tran 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Reena Saxena 5. Victoria Slotto 6. Dwight…

  Hello, haijin! You took time to hear the birds twitter! Congratulations to all contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Linda Lee Lyberg 6. Zander 7. Xenia Tran 8. Jules #2 9. Revived Writer 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11. Caitlin 12. Revived…

Photo by Ryk Naves on Unsplash   Happy Cinco De Mayo, haijin! And congratulations to those of you that completed thirty poems in thirty days for April!   We entered May with a flurry of prompts, and you offered a diversity of responses. Our hat’s off to this week’s contributors:   Haikai Challenge Participants  1. Jane Dougherty 2.…