by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Heat Wave Reculver, August 2022 Whipped by flowers, the cliff begins to crack. Gulls blunder. The sea is skinned along sand blades. Towers of the imagined dead slide downwards in a grip that is harder than ice. Carolyn Oulton’s...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Making Pierogi for My Mother A parcel of time the dough thinning to not quite conceal what it contains. Onions and potatoes root my floured fingers to the earth. We consume the ground we stand on. Sylvie Jane Lewis writes fiction and...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 10, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Two Haiku green spruce cone a globe of sap slips below the horizon * bloom of jellyfish a thousand beach umbrellas open close Joshua St. Claire is an accountant who works as a financial director for a large non-profit in...
by Helen Ivory | May 21, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku Calendar January, fear Like a preacher, elsewhered, dubbed To a moonbeam howl February – wolf Lopes across rock-snarled borders Inhuman stone tongue March – willow-wand faith Unbridled, even tonight As the mouse roars by April –...
by Helen Ivory | May 4, 2023 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
tongues of fire … the things I take the things it takes * drawn-out yawn . . . morning sunlight tangled in my old dog’s tail * beach sunset paints her face wine-red before love after love * around a bend in the wooded trail giant cliff Buddha *...
by Kate Birch | Dec 31, 2022 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year how long before I stop missing you Haiku originally published in #FemkuMag 9, 2019. Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet whose work has been widely published internationally. Her book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka...
