Category Archives: creativity

Daily Haiku: Jan. 24, 2024

following a path of pale light across the lake all the way to Jupiter by Michael Ketchek (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 34:2, 2011

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 23, 2023

going to bed looking forward to my Cheerios by Tom Clausen (USA), Author One Day, 2023

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 24, 2023

night singing– a promise lost amongst the stars by Valentina Meloni (Italy) hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #128, September 2019

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Daily Haiku: July 26, 2019

deep water . . . resting our paddles we float through silence by Marje A. Dyck (Canada), Author A Piece of the Moon

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Daily Haiku: March 19, 2019

piano practice leaves swirl allegro con brio  by Roberta Beary  (Ireland/USA) The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIV, No. 2,  June 2012    

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Daily Haiku: July 16, 2017

quiet moments a chickadee takes the last one by Sandi Pray (USA) A Hundred Gourds, 3:1, Winter 2013  

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Daily Haiku, Nov. 18, 2015

morning sun a poplar sheds the night’s rain by an’ya Shamrock Haiku Journal

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Daily Haiku, Nov. 17, 2015

pail in hand I trace the muddy path of childhood mushrooms by Angelee Deodhar Haiku World, An International Poetry Almanac, 1996

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Experience The Thrill of Winning Haiku, Senryu, and Related Poetry Contests

Dear Followers and Readers, Results are in for the winners of the 2015 contests sponsored by the Haiku Society of America. I will post them below, as I coordinated the contests as Second Vice President of the HSA. Before you … Continue reading

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Inspired Writing Is in Everything

After you’ve been a writer for decades, you find that there is inspiration in practically everything. You notice everything. A friend once said to me, “Can’t you do anything without writing about it?” I guess I can’t. Everything is grist … Continue reading

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