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Tag: haiga

autumn sunlight the old dog unearths her favorite toy
Posted on 21 December 200922 December 2009Author Melissa SpurrCategories Issue 09.1Tags autumn, haiga, haiku, photograph6 Comments on
christmas lights . . . the ambulance flashing in all the windows
Posted on 22 December 200924 December 2009Author David SerjeantCategories Issue 09.1Tags art, christmas, haiga, haiku10 Comments on

Words Words

tinywords resumes publication, with a painting by Natalie d’Arbeloff
Posted on 17 May 20103 July 2010Author Natalie d'ArbeloffCategories Issue 10.1Tags art, haiga, painting29 Comments on Words Words
sunday line of parking meters all expired [haiga: click URL to see image]
Posted on 2 July 20103 July 2010Author Jeffrey WinkeCategories Issue 10.1Tags art, haiga, haiku, parking, sunday5 Comments on
war ruins… suddenly the cicadas stop
Posted on 23 July 201028 July 2010Author David SerjeantCategories Issue 10.2Tags haiga, haiku, summer, war9 Comments on
beach party the last drop of sunlight caught in a glass
Posted on 10 September 201030 August 2010Author Barry GoodmannCategories Issue 10.2Tags beach, haiga, haiku, summer, sunlight14 Comments on

empty nest

empty nest still the bird sings (haiga)
Posted on 11 February 201112 February 2011Author Angie WerrenCategories Issue 11.1Tags haiga12 Comments on empty nest
winterlight a blur of birdsong in the air
Posted on 16 March 201115 March 2011Author Marjorie BuettnerCategories Issue 11.1Tags birds, haiga, haiku4 Comments on

haiga

flash of yellow a butterfly headbutts me in my work break
Posted on 1 April 201127 March 2011Author Alan SummersCategories Issue 11.1Tags butterflies, color, haiga, light, spring, work, yellow11 Comments on haiga
again and again a little girl makes it rain cherry blossoms
Posted on 28 June 201124 June 2011Author Barry GoodmannCategories Issue 11.2Tags flowers, haiga, summer16 Comments on
summer breeze … the wind generators in unison
Posted on 8 July 201124 June 2011Author Melinda B HippleCategories Issue 11.2Tags haiga, haiku, summer, wind6 Comments on
each butterfly carrying spring (haiga, click through for image)
Posted on 15 July 201115 July 2011Author C. P. HarrisonCategories Issue 11.2Tags butterflies, haiga, insects, spring9 Comments on
first recital all the ballerinas out of step (haiga)
Posted on 11 August 20112 August 2011Author Melinda B HippleCategories Issue 11.2Tags children, dance, flowers, haiga14 Comments on
the window overgrown with trumpet vine my dream of flying
Posted on 21 September 201121 September 2011Author Melinda B HippleCategories Issue 11.2Tags flying, haiga, sky, vines6 Comments on
today slips into the room ? hungry on tiny paws (haiga)
Posted on 19 October 201115 October 2011Author Angie WerrenCategories Issue 11.2Tags cats, haiga13 Comments on
light falling everywhere ? ? ?in its own place — summer’s end (haiga)
Posted on 5 December 201113 November 2011Author Marjorie BuettnerCategories Issue 11.3Tags autumn, haiga, haiku, light, one line, summer6 Comments on
alone at last she chooses the road less travelled… in her wind-blown hair salt air and wildflowers (haiga)
Posted on 21 December 201113 November 2011Author Susan ConstableCategories Issue 11.3Tags art, haiga, journeys, ocean, tanka, wind14 Comments on
just past mauve ? ? paddling hard for a dark shore (haiga)
Posted on 28 December 201113 November 2011Author Jim KacianCategories Issue 11.3Tags boats, evening, haiga, haiku, journeys, one line10 Comments on
we needn’t talk — the night whispers tales long forgotten
Posted on 31 October 201218 October 2012Author Gabriele BrunschCategories Issue 12.1Tags haiga, haiku4 Comments on
The many notes of the falling rain, all in tune. (haiga)
Posted on 29 November 201224 November 2012Author Don WentworthCategories Issue 12.1Tags haiga, haiku, photograph, rain33 Comments on

Haiga

dogwood petals falling with the rain my thoughts in pieces (haiga)
Posted on 19 August 20135 August 2013Author Kate MacQueenCategories Issue 13.2Tags art, haiga10 Comments on Haiga
gossiping among themselves their stories centuries old (haiga – click through to view)
Posted on 2 January 201429 December 2013Author Claudette RussellCategories Issue 13.3Tags haiga9 Comments on
first rain releasing held breath of summer (click to see haiga)
Posted on 11 February 20142 February 2014Author sonam chhokiCategories Issue 13.3Tags haiga6 Comments on
soundless– the rain falls from flower to moss (haiga)
Posted on 25 April 2014Author Cindy ZackowitzCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga, rain12 Comments on
nearly spring — a shadow of the words you left behind (haiga)
Posted on 16 May 2014Author Angie WerrenCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
spring sunlight rose tinted glasses accent a black eye (haiga)
Posted on 6 June 20145 June 2014Author Ed MarkowskiCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
untouched for two days my journal waits, patient as an atom bomb
Posted on 12 June 201412 June 2014Author Richard CodyCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga4 Comments on
unexplored world from behind the neighbor?s fence a cosmos (haiga)
Posted on 22 July 201412 July 2014Author Irena SzewczykCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
calm mist the cowbells marching (haiga)
Posted on 23 July 201414 July 2014Author Ramesh AnandCategories Issue 14.1Tags haiga13 Comments on
first drizzle … all that was left unsaid in your eyes (haiga)
Posted on 26 September 201414 September 2014Author Shloka ShankarCategories Issue 14.2Tags haiga10 Comments on
dawn stillness a blue heron rising without a ripple
Posted on 14 November 201422 April 2025Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 14.2Tags haiga11 Comments on

Haiga

woodpecker song luring me deeper into solitude (haiga)
Posted on 8 May 201523 June 2015Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 15.1Tags haiga25 Comments on Haiga
letting go the party continues without us (haiga)
Posted on 16 October 201530 August 2015Author Jane WilliamsCategories Issue 15.2Tags haiga7 Comments on
wildflower walk the path veers off through winter (haiga)
Posted on 21 January 201630 August 2015Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 15.2Tags haiga15 Comments on
Haiga: a few ducks for company the long way home
Posted on 29 April 201616 March 2016Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 16.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
haiga: just where the sky meets the sea — laughing gulls
Posted on 24 June 201621 March 2016Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 16.1Tags haiga10 Comments on
sere grasses … summer threads unraveling
Posted on 30 September 201618 September 2016Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 16.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
in a moon garden filled with night bloomers we stroll away a blue hour your hand in mine
Posted on 21 October 201618 September 2016Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 16.2Tags haiga, tanka5 Comments on
old love letters your words in light and shadow   photo by Frank Russell
Posted on 10 January 201718 September 2016Author Claudette RussellCategories Issue 16.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
chilly morning my spring coat stays packed (haiga)
Posted on 31 March 201721 March 2017Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 17.1Tags haiga7 Comments on
my father?s country– each year he goes home for the last time (haiga)
Posted on 8 May 201721 March 2017Author Jane WilliamsCategories Issue 17.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
fall migration … many wings beat against a moon drum (haiga)
Posted on 9 June 201721 March 2017Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 17.1Tags haiga11 Comments on
when caught how to release resentment? as wind disperses water as water erodes stone (haiga)
Posted on 1 June 201824 April 2018Author Autumn Noelle HallCategories Issue 18.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
glassy lake flocks of snow geese pull up the moon (haiga)
Posted on 28 June 201828 June 2018Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 18.1Tags haiga14 Comments on
bone density … the broken stems of sunflowers
Posted on 2 November 201818 October 2018Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 18.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
beachcombing the detritus of us
Posted on 20 November 201817 October 2018Author Marion ClarkeCategories Issue 18.2Tags haiga14 Comments on
water and stone how we shape each other
Posted on 15 December 201813 December 2018Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 18.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
mouth of the river an ever-changing story told to the sea (haiga)
Posted on 26 April 201923 April 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga13 Comments on
the ocean was in a rage last night but today these peace offerings of blue mussels and kelp (tanka/haiga)
Posted on 14 May 201923 April 2019Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga, tanka9 Comments on
hospice pond a ripple settles into stillness
Posted on 5 July 201923 April 2019Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
redwood time . . . the steady journey from earth to sky (haiga)
Posted on 19 July 201912 April 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga10 Comments on
mountain meadow ten thousand ways to open to grace (haiga)
Posted on 25 December 201916 October 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.2Tags haiga9 Comments on
plain brown bulb the mystery of becoming (haiga)
Posted on 17 January 202020 October 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
northern lights the blur of scarves as skaters pass (haiga)
Posted on 31 January 202016 October 2019Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 19.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
self storage the bits we keep to ourselves (haiga)
Posted on 14 April 202012 April 2020Author Jane WilliamsCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
mossy log a ruffled grouse drums up the dawn (haiga)
Posted on 22 May 202012 April 2020Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga7 Comments on
living will the kids know all I need in the end sunlight on my face and ice cream every day (haiga)
Posted on 10 July 202012 April 2020Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
beach umbrella all day the orbit of its shadow (haiga)
Posted on 17 July 20202 October 2020Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
dawn your body?s outline follow?s mine (haiga)
Posted on 24 July 202024 July 2020Author Tanya DikovaCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
fox tracks … who was I before I was tamed? (haiga)
Posted on 23 October 20207 November 2020Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga2 Comments on

tanka

gloomy morning a windchime paddle loses its momentum we long for life as it was and the return to normal (tanka with painting)
Posted on 7 November 20207 November 2020Author an'yaCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga4 Comments on tanka
downtime the conflict rages (haiga)
Posted on 20 November 202026 March 2022Author Ray CaligiuriCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga, monoku5 Comments on
Beyond fault lines and the unbearable weight of the body the wish for wings to carry us home … (tanka image)
Posted on 25 December 20207 November 2020Author Autumn Noelle HallCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga, tanka9 Comments on
dawn meditation the valley surrenders its mist (haiga)
Posted on 22 January 20218 November 2020Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
in the beginning cherry blossoms (haiga)
Posted on 9 April 20217 April 2021Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 21.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
the measure of a life the flower that blooms for a single day (haiga)
Posted on 8 May 20218 May 2021Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 21.1Tags haiga2 Comments on
morning birdsong so many small reunions (haiga)
Posted on 28 May 202113 August 2021Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 21.1Tags haiga7 Comments on
thunder clap ravens fly at the dream?s collapse (haiga)
Posted on 7 June 202123 May 2025Author Ray CaligiuriCategories Issue 21.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
berry-picking even our shadows turn blue (haiga)
Posted on 22 June 202113 August 2021Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 21.1Tags haiga8 Comments on
bright green needles on the fire-scarred redwood what we?ve each survived (haiga)
Posted on 15 October 202123 May 2025Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
point A to point B … is life ever really that simple (haiga)
Posted on 6 November 20216 November 2021Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga2 Comments on
tall grass carries the scent of the sea fishing memories from my childhood the father I lost (haiga)
Posted on 19 November 202117 November 2021Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
between the pages of a half-price guidebook — the colors of someone’s autumn (haiga)
Posted on 24 November 202117 November 2021Author VidaCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
my easel stands neglected in the corner still flecked with bright colors of a world I no longer recognize (haiga)
Posted on 7 January 202217 November 2021Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
scattered thoughts going where the wind takes me (haiga)
Posted on 4 February 202217 November 2021Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga7 Comments on
telling stories of long ago the sound of rain (haiga)
Posted on 8 April 202226 March 2022Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
babushka dolls carrying my ancestors inside of me (haiga)
Posted on 6 May 20222 May 2022Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
A smudge of blackbirds swirling into evening . . . how fluid the shape of this sorrow (haiga)
Posted on 13 May 20222 May 2022Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga4 Comments on
home from work the intimacy and loneliness of a shared wall (haiga)
Posted on 3 June 20222 May 2022Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga4 Comments on
unheeded love songs freeze between worlds (haiga)
Posted on 24 June 20222 May 2022Author Ray CaligiuriCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga1 Comment on
the ups and downs of a September day goldfinches (haiga)
Posted on 30 September 202216 September 2022Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
riptide / we won’t go back (haiga/formatted haiku)
Posted on 8 November 20226 November 2022Author Julie SchwerinCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
the music of the spheres in my dreams I know the words (haiga)
Posted on 19 November 2022Author Marianne PaulCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
Mining for gold at dawn kalinga sagar (haiga)
Posted on 16 December 202220 November 2022Author Chidambar NavalgundCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
deep river the places that call us home (haiga)
Posted on 22 December 202219 November 2022Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
fern spores the ellipsis after your goodbye (haiga)
Posted on 18 January 202319 November 2022Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
prairie gale the groan of a silo holding steady (haiga)
Posted on 25 April 202326 April 2023Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 23.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
to love this body just as it is twisted shore pines (haiga)
Posted on 21 July 202319 July 2023Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 23.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
indian summer holding on and letting go (haiga)
Posted on 11 August 202319 July 2023Author Bob RedmondCategories Issue 23.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
the struggle to keep going summer heat (haiga)
Posted on 14 August 202319 July 2023Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 23.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
finding a place to rest the scent of autumn (haiga)
Posted on 3 November 20233 November 2023Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 23.2Tags haiga6 Comments on
evening walk— empty street but for the sun (haiga)
Posted on 24 November 20233 November 2023Author Sankara Jayanth SudanaguntaCategories Issue 23.2Tags haiga11 Comments on
one hiker out of millions a pebble loosens (haiku by Agnes Eva Savich, art by Linda Miles)
Posted on 8 December 20233 November 2023Author Agnes Eva SavichCategories Issue 23.2Tags haiga2 Comments on
the blue hour you slipped away without a sound (haiga)
Posted on 31 January 20243 November 2023Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 23.2Tags haiga5 Comments on
spring hanging her best silks in the wind (haiga)
Posted on 12 April 20249 April 2024Author Barbara KaufmannCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
migration the changing course of my life (haiga)
Posted on 3 May 20249 April 2024Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga5 Comments on
deep in the blossoming one honeybee (haiga)
Posted on 24 May 20249 April 2024Author Mimi AhernCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
sun-striped path the forest’s outbreath fills our lungs (haiga)
Posted on 21 June 20249 April 2024Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
the odd angles of dissent bamboo grove (haiga)
Posted on 19 July 202422 July 2024Author Geethanjali RajanCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga4 Comments on
bridging my two worlds a breath (haiga)
Posted on 8 November 20248 October 2024Author Biswajit MishraCategories Issue 24.2Tags haiga6 Comments on
solar eclipse the time we choose to look away (haiga)
Posted on 3 January 20254 January 2025Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 24.2Tags haiga2 Comments on
the shape of a life one sparkling wave returns to the sea (haiga)
Posted on 25 April 202522 April 2025Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
indigo sky one flies over center field (haiga)
Posted on 16 May 202522 April 2025Author Mimi AhernCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
refugee train small hands starfished against the glass (haiga)
Posted on 30 May 202522 April 2025Author Debbie StrangeCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga10 Comments on
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