Monthly Archives: October 2020

Daily Haiku: Nov. 1, 2020

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

summer downpour fluting the low tin roof         by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA) seashores, Vol. 5, November 2020

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 31, 2020

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu       it’s ALS– such a short sentence     by Lew Watts (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 44.3, Fall 2013  

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 30, 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

halfway to the seaa seagull’s shadowfollows its cry   by Andy McLellan (U.K.) Blithe Spirit, 27:3, September 2017

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 29, 2020

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu     gone in a flood my Feng Shui for Dummies     by LeRoy Gorman (Canada) Modern Haiku, Vol. 39.2, Summer 2008

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Free Verse by Charlotte Digregorio

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

This poem is taken from my new poetry-reference book, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing, that includes 330 poems of fourteen forms, along with inspiration, guidance, and publicity ideas for writers. The Dust by Charlotte Digregorio   I look at … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 28, 2020

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu     mimeographing the pastor says I’d make a good minister       by Gregory Longenecker (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 44.3, Fall 2013  

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Tanka by Pamela A. Babusci

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Tanka scattered loversnever a husbandthese cherry treesraining petalseverywhere, nowhere by Pamela A. Babusci (USA), Author A Thousand Reasons: Tanka by Pamela A. Babusci moongate44@gmail.com  

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 27, 2020

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

  senryu     Chinatown tour the vegetable peddler fans the buses’ fumes       by Anthony J. Pupello (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, Winter-Spring 1996  

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 26, 2020

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu     All Souls’ Day at the cemetery entrance a flower peddler     by John J. Dunphy (USA) bottle rockets, #14, 2006

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Need an Angel?

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

These are tough times. Think of an angel walking with you through life. Below is a prose poem from Richard Allen Taylor’s  Armed and Luminous, his book that I recently reviewed for this blog. https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/just-what-we-need-thoughtful-and-humorous-poetry-about-angels/ Snapshot of Hospital Patient Eating … Continue reading →

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