Tag Archives: micro-poems

Daily Haiku: July 5, 2022

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

In cold winds snow camellia bud opening 寒風に椿の蕾開きけり   by Hidenori Hiruta (Japan)  

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Daily Double Haiku: June 17, 2022

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

cycling telling my wife to close her mouth I swallow a fly by Rich Schnell (USA), Author Adirondack Haiku: Kayaking through Fog, 2004

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Daily Double Haiku: June 11, 2022

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

anyway you slice it– quarter moon by Nancy Orr (USA)

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Daily Double Haiku: June 10, 2022

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

rain on his brow– work’s dust and sweat wash away     by Kimberly Kuchar (USA)

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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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Tanka from the USA

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

will I everbelong . . .the squirrelat the birdfeederhungry too by Susan Burch  (USA) Honorable Mention HPNC Contest, 2018       Autumn afternoon we keep our distance in dappled light talking about the life we haven’t shared        … Continue reading →

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3 Selected Tanka from Canada

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

growing wildin a corner of my gardenher favourite flowersseeds scattered with the ashesand the evening breeze by Susan Spooner (Canada) British Haiku Society Tanka Anthology, 2020    a large bruise  deep inside the mango  unexpected  the way she turned away  when we … Continue reading →

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Daily Double Haiku: June 5, 2022

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

check engine light—a reminderto see the doctor by Adelaide B. Shaw USA)

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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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Daily Double Haiku: June 4, 2022

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

homecoming– a bag of walnuts on the doorknob by Daniela Misso (Italy) Haiku Dialogue, May 12, 2021

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