Month: November 2017
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Thanksgiving
Originally posted on revivedwriter: For Frank J. Tassone’s latest haikai challenge. It’s more than turkey, Cranberries, pumpkin pie: Come all to the feast, Let’s be a grateful family, Gratitude creates bounty. ?
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Haiku
Originally posted on Bending moments: siblings… different narratives of our childhood (Tinywords issue 17.2 ) 23- 11 -17
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Tanka: Counting Blessings
#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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A Special #ThrowbackThursday 11/23/17 #haibun on comfort…#haiku #poetry #imaginarygardenswithrealtoads
Cup of Tea, Cup of Coffee Eighteen years earlier across the pond, a cup of hot Earl Grey tea. Hot bitter-sweetness spreads out from the first sip. Daylight fills the living room through cream curtains. The hum of morning traffic arises from a busy Wigmore Street. Today, at home, a cup of hot Columbian coffee.…
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-Three
‘…your hair was bound and wound About the stars and moon and sun:’—W.B. Yeats morning clouds everywhere I see your face since you slipped away your presence a reflection on this rippling water for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-Three
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season’s
Originally posted on Project words: season’s end dampness sharpens into frost ? ? ? ?
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Daily Haiku: Thanksgiving, Nov. 23, 2017
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: senryu ? wishbones the ritual with my mother ? by Alan Summers (UK) Presence, #59, November 2017
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I can’t flee away
Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: 世の中を 憂しとやさしと おもへども 飛び立ちかねつ 鳥にしあらねば Yononaka wo Ushi to yasashi to Omo(h)e domo Tobitachi kanetsu Tori ni shi arane ba I feel the life is sorrowful and unbearable though I can’t flee away since I am not a bird. -Yamanoue no Okurachōka “A Dialogue of two Poormen (貧窮問答歌, Hinkyū mondōka)” Art by Utagawa…
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