by Ivory Web | May 27, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
red hair of my wifeflickering in the hot wind,glowing bed of fire ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ crinkly gray strandsin the black brush of bristlesapproaching heir time• Daniel Wilcox, a former activist, teacher, and wanderer, is leaving a vapor trail of poetic debris,...
by Ivory Web | May 14, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Brother of the Sea Lake Erie – blue water and sky become one. I sit in the sand not far from the place along the channel where my father and I used to fish. The beach is smaller now, cluttered with garbage cans and signs. The driftwood too, scattered along...
by Ivory Web | May 2, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Spring is in the air, there is a holiday weekend in the UK and it's time to relax – so here is a new haibun by regular IS&T contributor Mike Montreuil…WEEKDAY PICNICIts one of those picture perfect days. You arrive with your girlfriend and...
by Ivory Web | Apr 19, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
• Maggie West says “After I had been writing short poems for some years, I discovered haiku while studying formal western-style calligraphy. In 1992, I became a member of The British Haiku Society and was thereby introduced to other forms of Japanese poetry....