I've just posted a revised version of 'All Hallow's Eve'. I feel it's just better expressed but it's not significantly different. If there's a narrato...

Pleased you liked it. A haiku to be added: under chareed skins the pulp of baked carrots sweetens the astringent sesshin

Thanks, Heather and George. Much appreciated. The line "I notice it's the book..." is a memory as indicated by "last summer". Whereas the "narrow bed"...

Too obscure for this uncultured fellow! My haiku is not meant to be factual but a metaphor. (I spent much time with my dad messing about in boats when...

Thanks, Jonathan. Hope you can make it to the Red Thread gathering this year. Last year you were missed. Best wishes, Stuart.

Hi George, Haiku will always be my first love but tanka can give more space to develop aspects which would be lost if they were truncated into a haiku...

Thanks. I'm pleased you like them. best wishes Stuart.

Thanks. I'm pleased you like them. best wishes Stuart.

Hi Jonathon, Good to see you at last on the new forum. I was beginning to feel that me and George had it all to ourselves. A vivid animated descript...

Hi George, Yes it is a reworking of an earlieer haibun posted on the old forum. I appreciate your perceptive reading. I'm familiar with Susan Murphy a...

Hi George, I like the subtle humour of the third but also stumble over the rhythm of the first. Maybe the following would scan better: through cloud t...

HiHeorge, Pleased you liked it. I'll bear in mind your comments and will dredge my memory to see if I could 'cook' thre second part. Hope everything's...

Hi Heather, Pleased you liked it. Thanks for the link where I could submit this but I'll probably sit on it for the next issue of Presence Hope everyt...