Category Archives: fathers

Daily Haiku: Oct. 17, 2023

returning from the edge of the world dad and his mower by Barrie Levine (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 46:3, Autumn 2023 Nominated for a Touchstone Award

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 15, 2022

forever in the shade of pine trees . . . father reading to me   by Mary Jo Balistreri (USA) failed haiku, October, 2020

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 25, 2022

senryu smoking a lucky strike— dad unfiltered     by Marilyn Fleming (USA) Prune Juice, November 2020

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 1, 2021

chest of drawers in my father’s house . . . autumn gathers by Ruth Partridge (England)

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Father’s Day Poem by Donna Bauerly

  Reflections Here, before two mirrors— One glass, The other a picture Of my unknown father— I reflect:   How strange to be so like A man I do not recall. Dead at thirty-three He knew me for just one … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: March 17, 2021

father’s whistle in a blade of grass       by Mary Jo Balistreri (USA) The Heron’s Nest, #17, 2015

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 14, 2021

stop sign– one last look at my father’s house       by Yu Chang (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 31:3, 2008  

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 22, 2020

senryu   Penn station– on the loudspeaker, a call for my dead father’s town   by Stanford M. Forrester (USA), Author the toddler’s chant

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Daily Haiku: July 11, 2019

senryu the mountain looming from childhood . . . father’s back by Jo Balistreri (USA) akitso, December 2018

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Daily Haiku: June 5, 2019

the dead of night my father wanders through my dreams   by Gregory Longenecker  (USA) Frogpond, 37.2, 2014

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