by Helen Ivory | Nov 8, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
pollen count high – bee on a cherry coke splutters its wings * burr of phones – the soft hooves of the Glasgow train * slicing cellophane – three a.m cab hushes the snow * summer fall – ripe blackberries juice underfoot * pink frosting – slavered...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 6, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* the “bookettes” meet to discuss the latest gin * my students strive to earn an A– lockdown drill * no more navy blue boy blazers wildflowers * freshly cut chrysanthemums another memorial along the highway * sticky willow another message to delete...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 22, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* late again she calculates the arrival time of his first lie * small white butterflies she starts to think it might be too late * origami making a padlock of their certificate * John Hawkhead is a writer of haiku and other short...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 27, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
TAHOMA AND NIKKI FADE IN: MONTAGE OF SHOTS 1) Bright sun overhead in a cloudless sky. 2) Dying flowers in a dry garden bed. 3) Shimmering mirages on a desolate highway. 4) The Navajo-Nation Bank digital thermometer reads “108°F COYOTE a little...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Innuendo steaming beef— hidden in a country song lady’s patootie The songwriter didn’t know how best to juxtapose the image and so chose innuendo, stars and asterisks, patootie metaphors, shimmering beneath the disco ball. The singer...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 8, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* lunar eclipse a moonflower on my way * abandoned bench– shifting of shadow of an autumn tree * a seagull in its maiden journey– sea to the sky * spider net– the light captured by mistake * Pravat Kumar Padhy’s...
