Category Archives: Holidays

Daily Haiku: March 23, 2024

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

Memorial Day parade I waver my little flag by Peter Newton (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 45.2, Summer 2014

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 9, 2022

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

Christmas . . . the tick-tick of the clock before the children rise       by Sally Quon (Canada)

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 8, 2022

Posted on December 7, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

brass menorah the weight of grandpa’s satchel from the old country     by Barrie Levine (USA) (Chanukah starts Dec. 19)

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Daily Double Haiku: Dec. 5, 2022

Posted on December 4, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

  Remembrance Day different stories about my father   by Florin C. Ciobîcă (Romania) Prize winner 19th HIA Haiku Contest, 2017       christmas morning we exchange yawns by David Kāwika Eyre (USA) bottle rockets, #46, 2021     … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 1, 2022

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

holiday treadmill silent night by Ronald K. Craig (USA)

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Daily Double Haiku: Nov. 26, 2022

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

dad’s photo album . . . childhood Christmas trees grander in my memory​ by Susan Spooner (Canada)   Christmas morning  among the rowan berries  a lone cardinal  by Josephine LoRe (Canada)        

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Daily Double Haiku: Nov. 24, 2022

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

mulled wine   the family gathering   I’m excluded from    by Paul Beech (Wales)  Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 5, Issue 51, March 1, 2020     “Look, Santa’s on a reindeer”. . . he wakes … Continue reading →

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Daily Double Haiku: Nov. 16, 2022

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

wild turkeys strut the city gobble food . . . giving thanks by Caroline Giles Banks (USA)         Thanksgiving dinner . . . melting in my mouth jelly cranberry from a can by Michael Henry Lee (USA)  

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 9, 2022

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

fallen leaves fill the trenches – with guns     by June Read (Canada) Remembrance Day, Canada, November 11, 2022  

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 7, 2022

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

a single candle for the ailing world . . . night before Diwali by Milan Rajkumar (India) Frogpond, 44.1, 2021

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