Wow, your spooky haiku were so awesome!! Such a great variety of eerie ideas. Had our spines tingling!

An exhibit entitled “Haiga; The Art of Haiku” has opened at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Coshocton, Ohio.

Last weekend Sally and I attended the Wine Country Writers Festival in Penticton, BC.

I love these cooler days and even cooler nights, when all the tourists have gone home and the beaches are empty.

Haiku sounds like I’m Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.

“Puff,” I replied, and so it was. Only instead of Cream Puff, it became Puff the Magic Wagon.

Summer doesn’t know if it is coming or going here, with days over 35C then switching out to 23C in the blink of an eye.

Canada Day is a bit of a tenuous celebration for us. While we absolutely love this country, we also recognize its colonial beginnings and the irreparable harm that was done by settlers and the government to the Indigenous people that have been here since time immemorial.

Haibun Uncertain Light On The Cruise Ship “Miracle”  A tinny “You can’t always get what you want” out of the mercifully muted loudspeaker. Glinting steel posts. Lights mirrored in the shiny rain-covered floor. I’m here for the sunrise. Not the gentle dawn before a few clouds in the west turn gold and pink and the

Welcome to the tanka issue of the Solitary Daisy! Many thanks to Michael Dylan Welch for choosing the tanka for this issue from the many wonderful submissions that we received!