by Fathima Zahra | Jan 26, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
[Haiku] how do I begin? the song of a robin is lost in the telling Clare Bryden is a writer, artist and consultant based in Exeter. Her interests are wide-ranging, but primarily the place of human beings within the natural...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
The Universe Dreamed I: 16th September 2023 The Universe dreamed I’d come to its restaurant. I needed to pass the time before my train home. The restaurant bustled with galaxies intending to dine together. It felt only fair then that I give...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 25, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
on a dead deer the highway asphalt. reeks of exhaust and burnt rubber. the cars and trucks go by. the sun boiling and you rotting. an eye fixed on a sea of green beeches. only one of your antlers unbroken. pointing up to the mountains. does your herd still...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 28, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
table for one barely above a whisper … year-end dinner snow crystals on my neighbor’s windows … Foreclosure askew first job interview my shadow on the sunlit snow strawberry stains on the corners of my son’s mouth … his laugh in my...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Empty Basket Driving down the boulevard, I see large trees decorated with pink and white blossoms, evergreens tower over houses, trees flourish with spring greenery. In front of a market, candles and balloons mark the site of a drive-by shooting....
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Winter’s (love) sequence— We are in the bath, your hands around my back, mine around yours— everything covered in a fog. * The hills white under snow, you somewhat warm in a cardigan, corduroy, boots pressing upon the cold earth....
