Gary LeBel & Walt Mehring: Wednesday Haiku, #180

Photo by Melanie Davies

After a train whistle blows
   the town even stranger
           than before

               Gary LeBel

Letter with corrections & comments of WW

 
open school book
in old farm house
Oh Captain!  My Captain!

Walter Mehring

Woodblock by Hiroshige

catching the spirit
of the nightingale's song...
samurai

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don

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Pravat Kumar Padhy & Gary LeBel: Wednesday Haiku, #149

Photo by Seyed Mostafa Zamani 

tree to tree--
I walk along carrying
shadows

   Pravat Kumar Padhy

 

Photo by Matt

Autumn gusts:
    a vein of darkness moving
through the sea-oats

            Gary LeBel

Photo by Reji

moving clouds--
step by step, so soon
the dawn

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Gary LeBel & Pravat Kumar Padhy: Wednesday Haiku, #134

Photo by Carine06

evening hush . . .
the long brown lash
of a filly

Gary LeBel

Photo by Gracey 


twilight hour
the starlit sky
in my garden

Pravat Kumar Padhy

  Photo by Florian Dre

the pony also
sets off on a journey...
autumn dusk

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,

Don

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Gary LeBel & Kerry J. Heckman: Wednesday Haiku, #119

Had to call twice:
black lab romping
in a moonlit meadow

Gary LeBel

 

overnight snowfall 
my secret stirs
salt on the pavement 

Kerry J. Heckman

Catching Fireflies by Toyohara Chikanobu

guiding the way
to firefly-viewing...
the hut's dog 

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

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Don   

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Gary LeBel & Kala Ramesh: Wednesday Haiku, #81

Star Atlases depict Rigel as the left foot of Orion the Hunter 
Via the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

old staircase:
each step closer
to Rigel

Gary LeBel

Rain Clouds in Cameroon by Trees for the Future

the rain clouds
beyond darkening trees
a cuckoo sings

Kala Ramesh

Cuculus optatus via Wikipedia

cuckoo--
he even scolds
the tree planter

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don 

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Gary LeBel and Aditya Bahl: Wednesday Haiku Week 59

Photograph by Carolyne Rohrig

sunlight on the water
between the angler and the river
the line so thin

Gary LeBel

Photograph by Dobromila

winter morning-
mother steam irons a shirt
the wrinkles on her face

Aditya Bahl

Hiroshige

without seeing sunlight
the winter camellia
blooms

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

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Don

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