Month: November 2017
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Tanka: Acceptance
#Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka!
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Today’s Haiku (November 30, 2017)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 友ひとり失くして夢にゐる鯨 青木ともじ tomo hitori nakushite yume ni iru kujira I lost a friend… a whale is in my dream Tomoji Aoki from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #508, 1/15/2017 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com
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Under the Basho 2017 published
Originally posted on Anna Maris: The on-line journal Under the Basho has published a digital collection of this year’s poems. Ten of my one-liners are included in this lovely journal with many of the world’s contemporary haiku-poets. On-line-jounalen Under the Basho har publicerat en digital samling av årets dikter. Tio av mina enradingar är inkluderade…
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autumn is almost done
Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 秋果てて冬はとなりになりぬとて飽かねば菊を匂ひくはふる aki fatete fuyu fa tonari ni narinu tote akaneba kiku wo niofi kufafuru Autumn is done, and Winter is close At hand, they say; When I am left wanting more, the chrysanthemums’ Scent grows thicker. -Dairi No Kiku Awase ? Art by Yamataka Noboru
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In The City
Originally posted on Zander In Print: Mute stainless steel sky Curdled clouds baggaged with snow Joy to the World plays ? Dove, not a partridge Chained to sidewalk-prisoned tree Havana dreaming ? False clouds turn to rain Late November’s burnt umber Obscures silver bells Z Z thoughts: In primary school we learned that Haiku is…
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-nine
ingawh [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons ‘Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?’—W.B. Yeats Blood sunset our mad general pursues her across this land so we bleed so far from home for these empty vanities for Jane Dougherty’s A…
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A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 11/29/17 special…On Winter Mornings and Abundant Wanderings…#haiku #poetry
By ILMRT (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Winter mornings abundance of hot coffee before wandering congested highways of these inevitable commutes For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 73–Winter and Mornings and Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge and Poets United Midweek Motif–bittersweet and Real Toads Tuesday Platform
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From Chen-ou Liu
#Haiku Happenings #8: Sarah Russell features Chen-ou Liu!
Frank J. Tassone 