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)

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

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