Photo-haiku

luni, 13 octombrie 2025

Fireflies’ Light / A Magazine of Short Poems / Issue 33 October 2025

Co-Editors: Mason Arledge, John J. Han

joi, 9 octombrie 2025

Haiga im Focus - October 2025

luni, 6 octombrie 2025

Talking about strawberries all of the time / OCTOBER 06, 2025

Edited by Malcolm Curtis.

Light and dark

The stars are high up, and I'm lazing about this holiday village. An owl calls and flies away from a house, while, rising from the reeds, fleshier than in the city, the moon makes its golden way. On a rock, by the river, a dry face of many wrinkles turns to me: See this boat? it was my man's. We were together like thirst and water, but one fuliginous day, he didn't come back. After a while, my son left home too; the butterfly doesn't stick around its caterpillar for long...
shell strings
hanging by the window –
marital horizon

Lifeline

On the wall in front of the house, an old man with his feet dangling towards the road. Sunlit or shaded (as the clouds will), he seems related to a piece of stone. He stays up there all day long, sometimes even at night, to be closer to the road and the angels. At home, there's nobody, even the trees have dried up, but he has this wall. His parents built it to protect them against the winters and the people, when they were listening to Radio Free Europe. In a shady corner, a ripe wild cherry tree.
  lifeline –
  from one thistle to another
  hands and feet

Hidden paths

In the harsh light of noon, the woman’s hand over the eyes trembles like a broken wing She lowered the garden fence, so she can see as far as the horizon, where someone appears now and then, but never reaches her. As the sparrows are dozing off among blue morning glories, the silence seems too hard to be broken, but a ship’s horn sounds and some ray of hope is flitting across her blushing face. Time to pull off the weeds on the pathway home again...
  two cups of tea –
  coming at the right time
  a cloud of rain

Waiting

Dawn. Shouldering my Nikon, I hunt along a narrow Danube channel. Poking around in the reeds, I come across a woman sitting by the water, a few rods and yellow water lilies aligned before her. We are close enough for a dew drop to reflect us both. She smiles, holding an envelope, but I feel her soul keeled over and her voice fluttering like a newborn butterfly says: I got this letter a few years ago but I won't open it. I postpone my joy until the second one will arrive.
  I wait, you wait –
  never enough time
  to leave as one

Dust clouds

Holding a clay pot by the brook, a woman in black shroud asks me: What does it mean when you dream of an excavator? It was driving along, dragging the forest behind it, and the wild animals were running in the village, with their young in the mouth. Then, it cleared the graveyard for bones and dropped them in ash-pots, but my man’s wasn’t there, so I got this clay pot for him. In the meantime, I changed my mind.
A dream is just a dream. And yet, where does this billow of dust come from?
  people on the road –
  a two eye-spotted shadow
  swept up by the wind

miercuri, 17 septembrie 2025

Daily Haiga / August 2025

marți, 2 septembrie 2025

Pan Haiku Review issue 5 haibun & tanka-bun edition part two Summer 2025 ed. Alan Summers

Adam's apple

For about two hours the skinny man has been looking at the yellow apple, as if he's found a new planet. He holds it on his lap for a while. He would eat it, but this is the only one he has, and it belongs to the worm that touched it first, which pokes its head out, now and then, so the old man has someone to talk to. I feel his dilemma becoming mine, so I let him wonder about cutting the apple into halves, or pair it up with the moon by sticking it on the wooden fence.

hooting owl –
a pair of helpless arms
in self-embrace