esmé continues to amaze. #catsofbluesky

blossoms blossoms one minute they fill our eyes next we tread on them

This week’s poems for Surfside Cafe Rotherslade

our messages i scroll back to when we were funny #senryu

from a parking lot at sunrise #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

#frutigeraero #micropoetry 🫧🍃🌿🫧🍃🍀🫧🍃🌱 spring clouds shift across the sky dappled shadows play with light across rolling hills of grass springlight of open sky glows through fluttering translucent clusters of leaves overhead last raindroplets freefalling to small runnels through the grass

Finally, a shot of a wren I’m really happy with 🎶 #birdoftheday #photography #birdphotography #wren

immersed in a good book took me a while to notice pollen on the page #dailyhaikuprompt #equinox #haiku

When I looked up, spring had arrived.

forest bestilled by fresh snow ˖*❅˖* #7syllablesentence #fresh

magnolia petals ⋆ ⁺ ₊ ⋆ reservoir of rosemilk moonlight 🌸🌙 #micropoetry #monoku

Ahh── behold! the golden yawn --Hanmonsen Kimura ああ──黄金の欠伸を見よ　木村半文銭 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

letting out a cough from around the second century BCE --Hanmonsen Kimura 紀元前二世紀ごろの咳もする　木村半文銭 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

when I touch your belly button the room gets brighter and brighter --Yagimoto Motomoto あなたのへそにふれると部屋がどんどん明るくなるね　柳本々々 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

borrowing a bike from a girl, in a summer shirt --Yagimoto Motomoto 女の子から自転車借りて夏シャツで　柳本々々 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

the boat carrying Moomin's remains --Yagimoto Motomoto ムーミンの遺骸を乗せて運ぶ舟　柳本々々 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

まだ梅がと思ったらスモモ。

magnolia we beg them not to fall but every year

So, @weratedogs.com I imagine you've seen this? If not . . . I think she's a 14/10

Returning with flowers

moon gravity

Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud, flash of blue in a cool moss bank, tips of tulips promising flowers to a blue-winged loon. movement of seed in furrowed earth, blackbird whistling sweet and clear from a green-sprayed bough. #poem excerpt: James Hearst #art Gardenia #resist

Magnolien 🤍🩷☀️

summer break- the vinyl bus seat tacky Find more haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

after treatment in my staff photo another man Find more haiku and haibun here: kasasagi.blog

by the gate forget-me-nots in the cool shade #haiku

behind glass spring awakening white tulips #thingstowriteabout #glass #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry #micropoem

forty three years on planet earth and I still need training wheels #HaikuChallenge #earth #BraveWrite #trainingwheels #Senryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry #micropoem

waver home after a long day a black eye #vss365 #waver #DailyHaikuPrompt #longday #thingstowriteabout #eye #Senryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry #micropoem

with someone who likes to eat trendy ramen --Yagimoto Motomoto かっこいいラーメン食べる好きなひとと　柳本々々 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

east wind in the windsock still cold #HaikuChallenge #east #BraveWrite #windsock #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

smiling, I board in an empty tram — spring break #InkMine #break #thingstowriteabout #smile #Senryu #micropoetry #micropoem

couples drinking... stirring sugar in my tepid tea #senryu

sponge cake soft and citreous spring clouds #WriteMap #soft #BraveWrite #citreous #Haiku #micropoetry #micropoem

"Cheer up, sparrows! the spring rain won't last forever" (images: Koson Ohara)

you're a child of the sun, I'm a child of the moon lift up your head! --Shinko Tokizane 君は日の子われは月の子顔上げよ　時実新子 #senryu #translation

spring rain puddles melted chocolate bunnies with a dash of earth #dailyhaikuprompt

making your own light puddles of white narcissus this cloudy morning

the first spring storm these bursted buds all tossing their hair

Bluebell path to the sea

love letter sent to her in junior school headmaster’s room - now! oyoguhito #senryu haikueye.blogspot.com

Quince

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she turns off the news to fill the bird feeder: squawk that makes more sense ... another spring again the trees' greening surprises her Happy Birthday and two senryu going out to @jennfel.bsky.social! #senryu #SenryuSunday

encompassing bloom

sharp-beaked, keen eyed ready to be angry and beautiful

I just might throw flowers at you, if we meet --Yagimoto Motomoto 花たたきつけるかもしんないもん、会ったら　柳本々々 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

we gather up the darkness in the house and light the lamps --Hanmonsen Kimura 家中の暗さあつめて灯をともし　木村半文銭 #senryu #gendaisenryu #translation

愛好やはるかかなたに桜散る 時実新子 In love... in the far distance, cherry blossoms fall - shinko tokizane --- roughness of hate... sickly yellow color of bananas #senryu