Category Archives: homeless

Daily Haiku: Sept. 30, 2022

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

empty begging cup the old man builds a cross  out of pennies  by Amy Losak (USA) Honorable Mention Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards, 2021

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Free Verse by Cassandra McGovern (USA)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

No Good Deed and All That Jazz by Cassandra McGovern On my whizzing winter walk to Union Station I’d pop change into her jingle box. “Money for the homeless!” she’d shriek, her voice rough by 7:30 am.   At her … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 22, 2021

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu   photo exhibit faces of the homeless in black and white   by Tom Painting (USA) Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 21, 2021

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu     finding him homeless– the terror in my father’s face lifted to mine     by Michael McClintock (USA) Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000  

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Daily Haiku: July 19, 2021

Posted on July 18, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

a homeless woman sips from a birdbath wrinkles in a rainbow       by Robert Witmer (Japan) Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2021

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Daily Haiku: May 27, 2021

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

the homeless between buildings night fog   by Dave Read (Canada) Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2018

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Daily Haiku: May 13, 2021

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

homeless– his cough in our air       by Margaret Peacock (USA) Modern Haiku, 33:2, 2002

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Daily Haiku: April 13, 2021

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu free haircut . . . homeless veteran sits tall by Roberta Beach Jacobson (USA) bottle rockets, #39, 2018

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 14, 2020

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu bag lady threading holiday tinsel through her cart by an’ya (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 43:3, Fall 2020

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 24, 2020

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu soup kitchen a hole in the sole of Santa’s boot   by Joe McKeon (USA) Modern Haiku, 50.3, Autumn 2019

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