ancestor’s home

visiting after a long spell of time

in stillness

the spiders and the prey

rewind the time of past and present

Special Features, ATPO: 25 Arthropod Tanka and Kyoka (Ed. Grunge)

http://atlaspoetica.org/?page_id=1801

Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, Vol 3, Issue 25, 2018

long night

the grass grows

with ease

Pravat Kumar Padhy

Comments by Michael Rehling:

So simple, and so profound. If the humans stay off the grass, then it grows on its own and 'with ease'. The sunlight strains the grass, and humans pound it down, but in the cool night we have the perfect environment. Grass like humans need quiet spaces to grow effectively. Simple observations of nature might be thought to be a haiku and not a senryu, but the poet speaks of 'ease' and that brought this one to me personally. Nature has no idea such as easy and hard. If we can just accept the moments of our lives we can grow 'with ease' as well. It is the absence of humans in this one that puts them into the picture for me.

https://failedhaiku.com/2017/12/31/happy-new-year-issue-25-is-up/

global festival

everyone celebrates

the Happy New Year

Asahi Shimbun,5.1.2018 (Ed. David McMurray)

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801050009.html