Month: November 2017
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A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-four
By Miller, James Martin & H.S. Canfield. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ‘We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; ‘ —W.B. Yeats ‘ Smoke in the sky After the last echoes of gunshots and screams only their bloodstains and memories remain for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats:…
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#FreestyleFriday 11/24/17…on “My Favorite Things”…#haibun #haiku #poetry
Fluidity on “My Favorite Things” First bars: da-da da, da da da: piano play. Steamer on an expresso machine superheats a caramel macchiato in the making. Or a cork on a bottle of California Burgundy pops open. Jazz-rhythm drums, catching the downbeat and bridging the intro, until the soul-satisfying melody line of John Coltrane’s saxophone…
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Today’s Haiku (November 25, 2017)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 君たちに余白の欲しい絵本冬 広井和之 kimitachi ni yohaku no hoshii ehon fuyu I wish you have blank spaces… a winter picture book Kazuyuki Hiroi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, April 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo
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Mare Tranquillitatis’ “fallen leaves…”
#Haiku Happenings #2: Eva Limbach’s latest haiku! http://evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post_24.html?m=1
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the 9th life (haibun) Daily Moments November 24/17
Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: He lived a humble life alone…a niece or a nephew here and there brought sunshine to his life…his offspring found no time, nor care to watch the sunset by his side. Before he reached this tranquil life, he’d tested his boundaries, stretching the elastics of addictions. Too many…
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Daily Haiku: Nov. 24, 2017
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: an old man learns two new words cherry blossom ? ? by Jennifer Hambrick (USA) Sakura Award Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, 2017 https://jenniferhambrick.com ? ?
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the male deer dashes
Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: まだ角があり恋があり雄鹿駈く Still with antlers, still with love, the male deer — dashes! – Kaneko Mukanshi Art by Katsushika Hokusai
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Butterfly
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: The things we do on our own as kids, is at times amazing. And sometimes, if we’re lucky, it stays with us. I don’t even remember how old I was. But I remember the lesson in school had been about caterpillars turning to butterflies. There had always been caterpillars…
Frank J. Tassone 