Category Archives: Language Arts

Daily Haiku: Aug. 31, 2020

backyard fireflies . . . each moment a different constellation by Stanford M. Forrester  (USA) White Lotus, #5, 2007

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Daily Haiku: June 19, 2020

long summer day . . . launching worms into the pond, a boy with a stick       by Michael McClintock (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, Fall, 2001  

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Ekphrastic Poem by Michael Escoubas

Woman with a Parasol After a creation by Claude Monet painted in 1875 She seems to blend in with the wind with the clouds with the sky and the swing and sway of grasses and flowers— the green underside of … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: June 17, 2020

sickle moon after the last pass the harvester’s wide turn home       by Alan S. Bridges (USA) Kingfisher, 1, June 2020

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Daily Haiku: June 16, 2020

cloud-streaked sky a pebble in my hiking boot           by Lynne Jambor (Canada) Honourable Mention The Betty Drevniok Award, 2020  

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Daily Haiku: June 14, 2020

summer breeze nothing but this hammock to catch it in by Peter Newton (USA)

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Daily Haiku: June 13, 2020

letting her walk all over me–ladybug   by Tom Clausen (USA) bottle rockets

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Daily Haiku: June 12, 2020

watching the catwatching the birdwatching the butterfly         by Marco Fraticelli (Canada)  

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Daily Haiku: June 10, 2020

first snowfall mouse droppings in my fur-lined boots       by Mary Stevens (USA)   The Heron’s Nest, 16:4, 2013  

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Daily Haiku: June 9, 2020

rooster crow a last arc of moonlight wraps around the silo       by Alan S. Bridges (USA) Modern Haiku, 50:3, Autumn 2019

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