Monthly Archives: September 2018

Daily Haiku: Ben Moeller-Gaa, Oct. 1 through 7, 2018

Longtime poet and author Ben Moeller-Gaa has a new book just out! Wishbones is a collection of haiku and senryu that explores the synapse between a moment’s initiation and its resolution. Moeller-Gaa shows us what’s possible in this unguarded space … Continue reading

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Seven Things to Keep in Mind about Haiku and Senryu

1.) Haiku and senryu are spontaneous, but can also be a quest. Each day there is something enlightening or amusing to be found in the ordinary. Believe this, discover something, and write about it. 2) Life is short. Haiku and … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 30, 2018

on my wrist bead by bead time passes by Lidia Rozmus  (USA/Poland) Four Hundred and Two Snails Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2018    

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 29, 2018

a low sky window frames set out with the trash   by Brad Bennett (USA) Modern Haiku, 48:2, Summer 2017

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 28, 2018

senryu   just married– a friendship of many years begins to end by Carol Raisfeld (USA) Failed Haiku, April 2016    

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 27, 2018

leaves of a tulip–                           cradle for a bubble                       of rain                                            by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams  (USA) September 2016

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 26, 2018

senryu after the beep– I listen to your voice again and again by Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo  (The Netherlands) Under the Basho, Category: UTB–Modern Haiku, March 14, 2018    

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 25, 2018

pink dawn seagulls swarm the boat’s stern   by Carole MacRury (USA), Author In the Company of Crows  

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 24, 2018

lost in the valley listening for the river to guide us home   by Rachel Sutcliffe (England/UK) A Hundred Gourds, 4:1,  December 2014  

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 23, 2018

haymaking the meadow packed with blue sky   by Alan Summers (UK) Troutswirl –Sense of Place: Meadow Sept. 16, 2018  

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