Ray Rasmussen's haiku, haiga and haibun and articles have appeared regularly in the haiku genre journals. He's the managing editor of contemporary haibun online. He dreamed that in a previous life he was a university professor, but now spends his time feeding the dogs, doing housework, writing and doing photography.
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I love your work! You’re an inspiration??and your web site is spectacular. So glad you’re sharing.
Your haiku (or is it a senryu?) works for me, Ray Rasmussen – although I would be in me bed earlier than 3am, dog or no dog!
twig in beak
a crow flies over a dog
fetching
? ?17
TECHNICAL NOTE
An all-season ‘mu-ki’ [‘no season’] ‘topic’ [theme] or ‘keyword’ [to link themes] is allowed in Japanese haiku rules. Muki can stand in for a ‘kigo’ [seasonal reference]. Throwing a stick for a dog, like skipping a stone over water, or kite flying, are muki, therefore haiku events [rather than senryu, or zappai].
I love your work! You’re an inspiration??and your web site is spectacular. So glad you’re sharing.
Winter wren hopping
fast from fir limb to fir limb.
Yellow lab squats to piss.
A doggone dogged dog, Ray.
Nice one Ray. Makes me think of counting sheep. Hope you’ve slept better since…
Your haiku (or is it a senryu?) works for me, Ray Rasmussen – although I would be in me bed earlier than 3am, dog or no dog!
twig in beak
a crow flies over a dog
fetching
? ?17
TECHNICAL NOTE
An all-season ‘mu-ki’ [‘no season’] ‘topic’ [theme] or ‘keyword’ [to link themes] is allowed in Japanese haiku rules. Muki can stand in for a ‘kigo’ [seasonal reference]. Throwing a stick for a dog, like skipping a stone over water, or kite flying, are muki, therefore haiku events [rather than senryu, or zappai].
It has to be a Lab.
Nice one, Ray. I love dogku.
Here's a dogku, Helen Ruggieri :
lab
chilly spring day
her dog sits
on my shoe
It has to be a Lab.