Category Archives: Marilyn Ashbaugh

Daily Haiku: March 20, 2024

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

Amish clothesline only the quilts in bright colors by Marilyn Ashbaugh (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 42, No. 2, Fall 2019

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Selected Tanka

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

rain washes the dust from the bus window and I can see more clearly what tears do by Philomene Kocher (Canada) Twenty Years of Tanka Splendor, AHA Books, 2009 cranes gather in a cloud-swept sky if only I too could escape by Marilyn … Continue reading →

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Double Daily Haiku: May 21, 2022

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

up on the roof street dancing    by Marilyn Ashbaugh (USA) tsuri-doro, Issue #6, November/December 2021

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Tanka by Marilyn Ashbaugh

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

blanket tent over mother’s clothesline soft grass tickles my cheek i kiss the earth   by Marilyn Ashbaugh (USA) Keibooks, Atlas Poetica

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Haibun by Marilyn Ashbaugh

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Luck and Chance She is sipping her morning coffee when a young woman, bloodied and barefoot comes stumbling up her driveway.  Neither knows the other’s language.   Afraid, she brings the woman inside and quickly ascertains that the young woman’s injuries require medical … Continue reading →

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Free Verse by Marilyn Ashbaugh

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

 The Only Things We Had   flip flops and polka dots bikinis and baby oil sprinklers and kiddy pools purees and steelies shooters and thumpers rednecks and greasers hard boiled and over easy duck tails and teeter totters smoke rings … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 16, 2019

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Charlotte Digregorio

monarchs mingle along a sandy shore long walk home    by Marilyn Ashbaugh (USA)

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