Category Archives: Parents

Daily Haiku: Oct. 28, 2022

berry-picking we talk of the son born bad     by Roberta Beary (USA/Ireland) Modern Haiku, Vol. 42.3, Autumn 2011

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 28, 2022

two shadowsthe headstones of parentshe never knew by Jeff Kressmann (USA) The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XXII, No. 2, June 2022

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Daily Haiku: July 8, 2022

the summer breeze slams a screen door– memories of his son by Elliot Nicely (USA) bottle rockets, #17, 2007

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Daily Double Haiku: May 12, 2022

girl with a red pailrunning water overher sandy dad       by Geoff Pope (USA) Frogpond, Vol. 43:2, Spring/Summer 2020

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 1, 2022

           senryu              aged mother: showing her how to do things     she taught me as a child                       by … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 17, 2021

senryu family album . . . my father younger than me by Deborah Karl-Brandt (Germany) Failed Haiku, Vol. 6, Issue 71

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 15, 2021

senryu father’s spectacles on the dusty side table– an unsolved crossword  by Arvinder Kaur (India) Issa’s untidy hut, wednesday haiku, #136, 2013

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 1, 2021

chest of drawers in my father’s house . . . autumn gathers by Ruth Partridge (England)

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Tanka by Debbie Strange

snow whirls outside the henhouse . . . father cups my hands around a warm brown egg       by Debbie Strange (Canada) 3rd Place Fleeting Words Tanka Competition, 2018  

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 7, 2021

the number of pages until she sleeps spring rain       by Sharon Pretti (USA) Mariposa, 24, Spring/Summer 2016

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