Month: October 2017

  • Daily Haiku: Oct. 25, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: autumn again . . . colors born from dead leaves by Antonio Sacco (Italy) ?

  • autumn leaves

    autumn leaves

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: With a rustling sound Fallen leaves pursue and pass Others on the ground -Tatsuko ? Art by Kobayashi Kiyochika, “Autumn leaves in Sangoku” ? ?

  • #Tanka Tuesday #2: of Medals and Memories

    Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge 68 invites us to write tanka featuring the words medals and memories.   Marion Month Miraculous medals shine in the dawn’s first light So many memories of vigils never made   UPDATE: also for Real Toads Tuesday Platform!

  • #Tanka Tuesday 10/24/17…as Halloween comes…

    Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge poses the prompts “Eerie” and “Costume.” So appropriate, with Halloween around the corner. See if you can guess which short story inspired this tanka:   Eerie moonlit mist guest in a red death costume at the masquerade how many tomorrows will come before the clock’s final gong?   UPDATE: for dVerse…

  • You Make the Darkness Light

    Originally posted on revivedwriter: This is for Frank’s Haikai Challenge #4, which invites us to write a haiku, tanka, haibun, or similar form of poetry, using the word “darkness.” I wrote a somonka, which is made up of two tanka and usually has love as a theme. Usually, somonka are written by two people, but…

  • Haiku: The Warm Glow Of Home

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia’s latest haiku for Carpe Diem!

  • Cubist moon

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: just cold enough for puddles to freeze . . . cubist moon Published in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, fall 2017. *    *    *    *

  • Daily Haiku: Oct. 24, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: SENRYU ? strict diet just my cat’s tuna breath ? ? by Stefano d’Andrea (Italy) Failed Haiku, Issue 22, 2017