Haikai - Nineseventeen Pm

daylight fading nineseventeen pm hedgehogs feeding light holds nineseventeen pm horizon glows a blackbird sings nineseventeen pm good night houses lighting up nineseventeen pm days still lengthening croaking frogs a splash nineseventeen pm Basho comes to mind evening beckons bats nineseventeen pm the gardeners' friends sat by the pond nineseventeen pm mosquitoes feasting hot and humid nineseventeen pm sleeping naked the garden buzzing nineseventeen pm june bugs make a show **************** nineseventeenPM Poetry Contest - Sponsored by John Lawless 19th June 2018 haikai - May refer in both Japanese and English to haikai no renga (renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga.