Monday, July 31, 2017

thin pond
in the midst of
scorching heat
the cows gently lick
each other’s shadow

Atlas Poetica, Special Features: Humorous Tanka and Kyoka, July 3, 2017 (Ed. Joanne Morcom)


Wednesday, July 19, 2017

river bank
the saint chants
lifting the sun

*****
baby talk
I silently watch
blooming buds

The 9th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2017 (Judges: Takehisa Iijima Joe Maricoji, Noboru Oba,  Lisa Somers and Shuichiro Soma

http://samidare.jp/basho/box/e-haiku9e%20pdf.pdf


Thursday, July 13, 2017

Below
the lamp--
total eclipse

The Mainichi News, 14.7.2017, Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170621/p2g/00m/0fe/085000c