by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
seagull flying over NO VACANCY beach motel * faces on a school bus: petals of flowers unopened * golden finches rise & fall like notes of a symphony before my bicycle Wayne F. Burke’s haiku, and associated forms, have been...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 25, 2025 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
the first holiday Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her haiku collection, Random Blue Sparks (Snapshot Press 2024), received 3rd Place in the Haiku Society of America’s...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 25, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas
Parable For thirty years, O Lord, we have lived in a house without foundations. And now it is Christmas again, we drape lights from the living apple tree to the dead one, haul o come o come from the piano, set the innumerable specials, the host of...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Holy Ground I imagine my mother pulling apart my praying hands. Don’t be such a holy roller, she’d taunt. Get over here, quit committing to the ethereal, get down on those knees and help your family pick strawberries. The bending made...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
* the sound of raindrops in our silence of farewell eviction night * 360 degrees of a lighthouse searchlight … this darkness (in me) * this fresh morning so much like the others … yet starlings shape-shift Chen-ou Liu is...
