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...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 10, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
calm river again, his fishing line caught on a tree * raindrops slide down the window death in the family * thick clouds snowflakes dot my dog’s fur * breaking clouds flower petals pasted to my windshield * Christmas dinner with Mom’s new...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
lightning flashes everyone stands still * doves balance on telephone wires girls play jump rope * wall of windows carved out of red brick see no evil Diane Webster’s haiku/senryu have appeared in failed haiku, Kokako, Enchanted...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
end-of-day catch our wicker basket full of salmon sunset * hospice garden the wishing fountain fills with fallen leaves * breezy sunshine my blind date and I slow-dance to subway’s sway * churchyard shadows a bent woman speaking in tongues *...
