Category Archives: Robert Witmer

The Daily Double Haiku: Jan. 14, 2023

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

epitaph the stone beneath the snow by Robert Witmer (Japan) first frost, #3, Spring 2022 if you say so, language, it snowed by John Levy (USA), Author In the Pit of the Empty, 2017

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3 Tanka: June 7, 2022

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

too cold to go out today too humid tomorrow I wonder whether the weather’s manic or if it’s me by Jerome Berglund (USA) Previously Published: https://www.facebook.com/charlotte.digregorio   New Year’s Eve whiskey in a wine glass the tilted cuckoo in the broken clock … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: March 16, 2022

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

jewel thief in the middle of the night falling stars     by Robert Witmer (Japan) Haiku Canada, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2022

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 23, 2021

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Christmas play   the eight-year-old wise man   nibbles his chocolate myrrh     by Robert Witmer (Japan) Modern Haiku, Issue 48.1, Winter/Spring, 2017

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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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A Haiku Sequence by Robert Witmer

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

waving goodbye   tiny hands reach for mother’s breast full moon     pollywogs in clear water my first child in my father’s arms     starting college only one of us waving goodbye     spring cleaning nowhere to … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: June 23, 2020

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

el ninothe boy next doorthrowing snowballs at our roses   by Robert Witmer  (Japan) Failed Haiku, Issue 7, July 2016

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Free Verse by Robert Witmer

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

What is Death is Always the death of another The terrible taking away Of a loved one Or a total stranger A something or someone else However close you may come You are always Unceasingly, insistently alive Thriving or wasting … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: April 29, 2020

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

wormholes in the sweetest apples autumn afternoon by Robert Witmer  (Japan) Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Issue 3:1, Autumn-Winter 2019-2020

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Daily Haiku: March 6, 2020

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

senryu Leonardo mixing paint the eye before the smile   by Robert Witmer (Japan) Heart Breaths: Book of Contemporary Haiku, 2016  

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