Carpe Diem Haiku – hatsu hana (first cherry blossom)
Carpe Diem Prompt today is hatsu hana (first cherry bloom). Still a month away here. pink wind blowing blessing from the south first cherry bloom ~~ sky obscured pink petals […]
Carpe Diem Prompt today is hatsu hana (first cherry bloom). Still a month away here. pink wind blowing blessing from the south first cherry bloom ~~ sky obscured pink petals […]
Līgo Haībun prompt of the week is “and we danced”, and therefore I want to tell you the story of Juanita. She came to the company every morning, and walking […]
Writing something on green to celebrate the upcoming S:t Patrick’s day is what Karin want’s us to do on dVerse. For me it had to be a limerick. Limericks are […]
Trifextra challenge is a picture challenge. To avoid any infringement issues I put my own picture here instead. The meter in the poem below is iambic hexameter, and I had […]
Carpe Diem prompt today is Tsubame (Swallow) a wonderful spring kigo that I’m waiting eagerly for. I found this wonderful woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige pair of swallows dancing in […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis