Category Archives: Marilyn Fleming

3 Tanka: June 14, 2022

sunrise services a flock of white ibis rise together our morning prayer over the marshes by Antoinette Libro (USA) red lights,  June 2019      this tiny shell tumbled by tides  and bleached by the sun . . .  the way some … Continue reading

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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: May 26, 2021

watering rosesa toad baptizedfrom the pour spout   by Marilyn Fleming (USA) The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIX, No. 2, June 2017

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A Haiku Sequence by Marilyn Fleming

The Biting Earth newborn in a sling her back stooped gathering twigs   market baskets— the art of teeth-splitting  elephant grass   hands outstretched in joyful patterns catching guinea hens   banyan saplings bitten and stripped barkcloth    by Marilyn … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 20, 2020

worry stone in my pocket –furrowed fields by Marilyn Fleming (USA) Modern Haiku, 46:1, Winter/Spring 2015

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Haibun by Marilyn Fleming

To My Grandson If one dull summer day you should find yourself in a melancholy mood, go for a walk through the meadow until you spot a green flat blade of tall grass with a sharp edge, and place it taut … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 12, 2019

silent flight of a raptor— your breath on my neck   by Marilyn Fleming  (USA) Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2017

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 15, 2017

SENRYU silent flight of a raptor— your breath on my neck by Marilyn Fleming  (USA) Akitsu Quarterly, Fall 2017  

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 3, 2017

at seventy i stop counting rings in a felled tree   by Marilyn Fleming Modern Haiku, 47.3, 2016  

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