Archive for Japanese Short Forms

  1. UNTITLED • by Jack Byrne 9 Comments

    on the chair a perfect circle the old cat     Jack Byrne lives in Ireland, the Emerald Isle “the land of poets and scholars” He is 63 years young , married to Valerie oh …maybe 40 years we has 3 adult children all as gifted as he hopes to be.  He loves poetry, photography [...]

    Japanese Short Forms, Poems

  2. HAIKU 3 • by Marion Clarke 10 Comments

    last rash of snow a cobalt raven sidesteps                                     . . . takes flight Marion Clarke is an artist and writer from Warrenpoint, on the shores of Carlingford Lough in Northern Ireland. She studied and worked in Belfast, France and, up until the year 2000, in England, where she wrote technical articles for the trade press. [...]

    Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems

  3. UNTITLED • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 15 Comments

    jam making sealed in a jar summer garden     Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.

    Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems

  4. UNTITLED • by Jennifer Stakes 11 Comments

      tiny, seventeen syllables – nurtured, he’ll bloom into an epic   Jennifer Stakes is British but now lives in Washington DC where she writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. She has managed to find some decent tea but misses Jaffa Cakes.

    Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems

  5. INTRUDING SHADOWS • by Putheara Khoeun 5 Comments

    alone in the room shadows move silently no courage in sight Putheara Khoeun Full-time slacker who miraculously finished college.

    Japanese Short Forms, Other, Poems

  6. PHOTO SENRYU • Maire Morrissey-Cummins 12 Comments

    spring moon the last photo of her amid bluebells       Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoy poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children and was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.

    Japanese Short Forms

  7. HAIKU • by Colin Bell 10 Comments

      This blank page is grey I shall write rain and cloud here but remember blue.     Colin Bell: After a career making Arts Programmes as a producer/director and executive producer for British, American, Japanese and European broadcasters, novelist and poet Colin Bell (aka wolfiewolfgang), gave up television to concentrate on writing. He has [...]

    Japanese Short Forms, Poems

  8. NEW JERUSALEM, VERMONT (HAIBUN) • by CDSinex 10 Comments

    Cutting through dense woods well past the logging road’s end— Abandoned homesteads The deer trail brushes against a nameless pond, where hardwoods suddenly change to evergreens; a sign that this was once cleared land. Walking along a crumbling knee-wall, I stop to do the builders a favor and fill a small gap. Stacking fallen stones [...]

    Form, Japanese Short Forms

  9. HAIBUN • by CDSinex 7 Comments

    Heat lightening flashes somewhere on the horizon— A brief distraction There is something about changing seasons. After spring, summer is anticlimactic. A brief gift for having endured one more winter and just long enough to keep me here. In the garden, the deer have found the corn shoots. If they would only be patient there [...]

    Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems

  10. HAIKU NEST • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 39 Comments

      cutting rhubarb cupped in the stems a blackbird’s nest       Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. [...]

    Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems

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