by Helen Ivory | Feb 22, 2017 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* The octopus flashed Calm blue and brown, teasing me Like a fan dancer. * Pulse pounding, sweating, I dig in my pocket for The engagement ring. * The ruffian wind Elbows through dogwoods leaving Drifts of white petals * The singer wails out Para bailar...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 20, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* top and search – patrolling winds shake down trees * abstract oak – a chocolate spoon hot-melts in milk * asthmatic head cold – your sneezes gasp for breath * crow ascending – lung shadow spreads its wings ...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* riding a pale horse up the needle to a vein slipping through shadows * another mottle on the back of her hand the slow IV drip * threads of dark crimson coiling through liquid gold sunlit catheter John Hawkhead is a writer of haiku and other short...
by Kate Birch | Dec 2, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* old farmhouse wet snow falls on the backs of pigs * sun-bleached cattle bones a dung beetle burrows in the midden * shady forests swallowed whole by fire one charred acorn * waning rose an ant bears my burden * arriving from the first world I am an alien * the sun...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 5, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Reviews
in the dark it is night now and will be for some long time because a friend has come to live here and I must learn to see him in this light before the dawn can be allowed again Nick Carding is an Englishman now living in...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 28, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
First Practice Welcome to Beginning Meditation. After I explain a few basic principles, we’ll start with a three-minute meditation, a sort of trial run. By the end of the course, you’ll be making a 10-minute practice part of your daily routine. Ten minutes?...
