by Helen Ivory | Nov 22, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Haiku * A frenzy of flies shimmer in the dying sun – odour of apples * First light of spring – he runs to his destiny and slips on melting snow Greg Mackie is a poet, a dreamer, and a self-confessed idiot. He is...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 22, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Did You Drop Something? In my twenties I worked at a food co-op bakery in Minneapolis. This was back during the peak of the hippy days. I had long curly hair and a beard. We were areal odd mixture of people. There were draft dodgers, people wanted...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 17, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Five Haiku laundry day raindrops drying along the spider’s line the cat under the bush spying on a sparrow a none-of-your-business glance at a loss for words a distant honk ends my sentence ***************** grey clouds the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Five Haiku Wind wipes out the soil. Tiger sheds its skin—spotless Tiger Lilies fade. ♦ summer fruits abound two bunches of grapes protrude her sassy earrings ♦ pebbles in the pond scarring the face of water a broken mirror ♦ rain rain rain...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Four Haiku the bride bites into a rosebud flight of white napkins in the breeze * Arabian dream a sandarac tear captures the sun * moonlit Paris the glimmering scales of the sea monster * after the storm she cracked her door he held his breath Virginie...
by Ivory Web | Jan 29, 2012 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
fog rolls along the moorsa chilly night in SussexMrs.Woolf's library *grandpa's old watchfound in a dresser drawerit's been 1:30 pm forever *night time silenceone car passes bythe crickets stop chirping *the bleakness of winterwatching the...
