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Hospice garden--a nightingale song lengthens ... his life a few more days

My three faces lunar eclipse--Pere Risteski (North Macedonia)

full of marbles Kana Shiozaki, a creative writing student at Hokusei Gakuen University, penned this haiku about springtide with an ellipsis that makes readers pause before the third line. digging in the sand confidence Making her debut to this column from New Braunfels, Texas, during a COVID-19 lockdown, Kathleen Vasek Trocmet might have felt her life was experiencing a total lunar eclipse. anger management blood moon Angela Giordano paused with a caesura of excitement: oh, the fireflies... the...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read haiku by the light of fireflies at http://www.asahi.com/ajw/special/haiku/. The next issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network appears May 21. Readers are invited to send haiku about a lunar eclipse, on a postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or e-mail to  * * * David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April ...

under the trees and bamboo enough for the birds Tsanka Shishkova’s uphill climb was fruitful, leading her to write this line: the scent of spring plums on the hill. Stephen Toft wrote this one-liner about whispering to cattle in Lancaster, U.K.: spring blossom i sing to the bull. Wade German made a pilgrimage in Delta, British Columbia. spring snow... to master’s shrine Vladislav Hristov bowed under an old, bent evergreen in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Realizing that Jesus of Nazareth may have been ...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear Jan. 1, 15, and 29, 2021. Readers are invited to send haiku for New Year’s, the Year of the Ox, or a wolf howling at the cold moon, on a postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or by e-mail to (mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp). * * * David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column...