Barico

feeling alone in the middle of the woods until I hear a poem blown my way by the autumn wind #短歌 #tanka

A Red-winged Blackbird vigorously defending his territory along Central Park's Harlem Meer this morning. Males arrive early to claim the best spots, which enables them to attract as many as 15 female partners! 💕💕💕 #Blackbirds #CentralPark #birdcpp

One of the first Great Egrets of the year fishing along the shore of the Harlem Meer in Central Park.

#短歌 #tanka #poem September twilight after a leaf lets go and flies away a bird brings it back to the tree

@AsurasHaiku #短歌 #tanka September twilight after a leaf lets go and flies away a bird brings it back to the tree

the leaf with the snail is still --Seegan Mabesoone 葉一枚カタツムリ居てゆれず　マブソン青眼 From his #haiku collection The Origin of the World (世界の起源, 2026) #mukuku #gendaihaiku #translation

in spring rain a child teaches the cat to dance Basho

Testing the water….. 😘

For National Coyote Day, one of our favorite daytime looks at a Central Park Coyote. 🐺 🧡

#短歌 #tanka #poem tired of all the talk and battle in the castle they wander under the cherry blossoms

@marysia_cc #短歌 #tanka #poem tired of all the talk and battle in the castle they wander under the cherry blossoms

Ito Yuhan (1882-1951) Cherry Blossoms and Castle

OK, on a scale of 1-10, how handsome is this Northern Cardial who posed for me in Central Park? 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinal #CentralPark #birdcpp

I found her words at the edge of the lake I scooped them up but wasn't sure if she wanted them back so I planted them in a barren field and they soon turned into wildflowers #poem #veryshortstory

A close look at a Red-breasted Nuthatch in the Central Park Ramble. 🧡

#短歌 #tanka wondering how she flies and sings across the sky without wings the early spring moon

@AsurasHaiku #短歌 #tanka wondering how she flies and sings across the sky without wings the early spring moon

the ladybug when she spreads her wings colorless --Seegan Mabesoone 天道虫翅をひらいて無色　マブソン青眼 From his #haiku collection The Origin of the World (世界の起源, 2026) #mukuku #gendaihaiku #translation

#短歌 #tanka unwilling to wake up and afraid of the dark they turn back the clock to another time

@shortprose1 🙏

@NJBarico Beautiful 👏👏👏

#短歌 #tanka so many birds waiting for the wind and the moon to tell them where to go

@BashoSociety #4lines when there are no bones to find in a barren field a dog brings back the winter moon

a dog barks across the frozen field late winter moon Basho

@marysia_cc #短歌 #tanka so many birds waiting for the wind and the moon to tell them where to go

Ben Giles all of them at the same time

@AsurasHaiku #haiku a crow says my poems sound better in the language of birds

I can write in broken American English --Masaaki Yamada 片言のアメリカ英語を書けます　山田真佐明 (after Yamada:) I can write in a broken Tokyo dialect From The Lonely Night Haiku Gathering Newsletter No. 263 #senryu #LonelyNightHaiku #translation