by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Manipulation the song of silence can demolish thousands springs Today I tell a story about a young girl who was very skittish in her childhood . Couldn’t seat a single place for a minute, couldn’t remain few seconds silence without...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Four Haiku * a date with myself inside the fortune cookie a love note * migraine… the storm fails to subside * museum tour my husband lingers at the kamasutra painting * renovation I refuse to remove the pigeon’s nest ...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Hi, you. Mouth slightly open to the sight of dandelion: why’d you shove it in? Bitter lion teeth, breathtakingly ticklish, seed in a wrong bed. Cheng Tim Tim is a teacher and a poet born in Hong Kong to a Hokkien family. Her poems have been...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku * small boy under his feet skyscraper shadows * kitchen table at the master’s place a tiny spider * evening forest not quite big enough for all the shadows * Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku (which...
by Memoona Zahid | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Winter solstice 2020 13/12/2020 dream haiku small hours of Sunday morning family’s little strength guarded for mourning 17/12/2020 still growing on old apple tree— mistletoe 21/12/2020 the peanut feeder disappears — flap of crows...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
5 Haiku Origami cradle songs on the drive home… my empty womb * my mother’s knitted sweaters- I unravel knots * tears- water raining into an empty cup * drifting snowflakes- I restore the fragile lace of my wedding veil * encounters- his world is shaped by her...
