saw the country
and returned—now deep at night
I lie in bed and
fields of mustard flowers
bloom before my eyes

Masaoka Shiki | Sulav Shrestha
#tanka #Japan

Today’s begging is finished;
at the crossroads
I wander by the side of hachiman shrine talking with some children.

Last year, a foolish monk;
this year, no change!

Ryōkan Taigu
#poetry #Japan

was it the dark
we shared
or the candle

Susan Marie La Vallee (Bottle Rockets 25, 2011)
#haiku #3lines #poetry

In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.

Izumi Shikibu | Shima Seien
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
#waka #poetry #Japan

Her hair at twenty
Flowing long and black
Through the teeth of her comb
Oh beautiful spring
Extravagant spring!

Akiko Yosano | Hashiguchi Goyō
#Tanka #Japan

When no bell rings
What do the villagers do,
— Spring Nightfall

Matsuo Bashō | Takahashi Shotei
#haiku #spring #Japan

After washing and dressing,
she leans alone by the river tower,
a thousand sails pass by, but none are his.

Wen Tingyun | Zhang Daqian
Excerpt from "Dreaming of the South", translation: Witter Bynner
#poetry #China #TangDynasty

John Launois | Geiko in Kyōto
#Japan #photography

Spring rain falls gently,
A fishmonger’s lantern glows
Through the misty dusk.

Yosa Buson | Kōhō Shōda
#haiku #spring #Japan

smooth cemetery stone
I run my fingers
across her lifetime

Jay Friedenberg | Henk Binnendijk
2017 Peggy Willis Lyles Award Winner #haiku #poetry

Ice on the pond
the skate marks
like thoughts left behind

Bruce Ross #haiku #winter #poetry

first storm alone
without thinking
I call out his name

Pat Davis
#haiku #3lines #poetry

@mamajoules.bsky.social

revealing
my true age
hotel mirror

Julie Bloss Kelsey | Francis James Mortimer
#haiku #poetry

one by one
even the cats come home
cold night

Issa Kobayashi | Shoda Koho
Translation: D. Lanoue
#haiku #Japan

The snake and I
Live together in harmony
In the light of the moon

Kobayashi Issa | Dang Hiep
Translation: Robert Hass
#haiku #Japan #LunarNewYear

Strange night
crouching fox
stalking a cool melon

Matsuo Bashō | Shoson Ohara
#haiku #Japan

I closed my eyes
And my father died

He could not wait
Any longer

light snow—
a beignet’s sugar
stains my lap

published on Poetry Pea

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry

cold winter night
at times
the loneliness of three lines

#haiku #poetry

.

the police officer
questions the autistic child
and receives back 
scribbles that mean nothing
in this world of ours

by M. Kei
#5lines #tankapoem #tanka
#TankaThursday police
#disability

Yoshida Toshi | Tokyo, 1938
#art #Japan

Winter moon —
the sound of wings
freezes too

Masaoka Shiki | Reiji Hiramatsu
Translation: Janine Beichman
#haiku #winter #Japan

On the frozen pond
a duck stands alone,
in the evening’s cold.

Masaoka Shiki | Utagawa Hiroshige
Translation: Janine Beichman
#haiku #winter #Japan

The winter river—
down it come floating
flowers offered to Buddha.

Yosa Buson | Kamisaka Sekka
#haiku #winter #Japan

Kyoto | Henri Cartier-Bresson
#blackandwhite #photography #Japan

after the bell,
within the silence:
within myself

Nick Virgilio | Chester Ong
#haiku #poetry

Today's Feature at MyHaikuPond.com

pouring rain
the leaky roof
has its own song

Ravi Kiran

TINYWORDS, December 30th. 2024

Image: "Rain at Magome", Takahashi Hiroaki a.k.a. Takahashi Shōtei

Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-1979)
Near Yasaka
#japanese #woodblock

cleaning day blues
playing the dust off
the piano

#haiku #poetry #SenryuSunday #VSS365 #dust