by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2019 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* dry gully not the friend I thought you were * the boss says it’s optional yellow-bellied blacksnake * crumpled sleeping bag the rippled reflection of a freeway pylon * Lovers’ Bay a single set of seagull prints * trampled daffodil the long...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2019 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Lavana Kray is from Romania. She has won several awards, including the status of Master Haiga Artist, from the World Haiku Association. Her work has been published in many print and online journals. Currently she is the editor for Cattails Haiga works...
by Helen Ivory | May 7, 2019 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
hugging mother’s urn inner child steps over sidewalk cracks * first grey hairs he stands on his hands before making love * pew pew some homely holiness aims at us * talking to a snake we discover just skin shed skin...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 21, 2019 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Lavana Kray is from Iasi – Romania. She has won several awards, including the status of Master Haiga Artist, from the World Haiku Association. Her work has been published in many print and online journals. Currently she is the editor for...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 13, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* pressed in my diary the guava blossom you picked has lost its fragrance * rain-soaked scent of pine duff I still walk our favourite slope to watch paddy ripening in the fields * heads thrown back a pair of black-necked cranes fling their call to the...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Rutted The sabbath, I pray to the cliffs. The Button Rock Hermit chants somewhere back in the pines. There is wind over everything, even the far highway roar. Our complicity sinks heart, sinks bone. I shift from reverse to first and bounce down...
