Month: November 2019
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A November with Basho, Day 23
Author’s note: I’m afraid that my November with Basho ends today. Unfortunately, due to illness, work demands, and Thanksgiving, I could not keep up. I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey. Sora, suffering from persistent stomach ailments, was forced to return to his relatives in Nagashima in Ise Province. His parting words: sick to the bone…
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red moon
Originally posted on Christina Chin Haiku: 🔸 incense smoke shrouds the red moon Obon festival 🔸 En français la fumée d’encens enveloppe la lune rouge festival d’Obon [Tr. Jean-Louis Chartrain] 🔸 台俳（Taiwanese Haiku) 香薰煙 掩藏赤月 法會祭 [Tr. Jimmycm Lin] 🔸 Assamese ধূপৰ ধোঁৱাই ৰঙা জোনক আৱৰে অবন উৎসৱ [Tr. Mafizuddin Chowdhury] 🔸 The Cicada’s Cry…
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Poems
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: daylightsome clouds the colorsof birch trees new booksby poets, editorsand publishers –their time to shineand readers blessed gratitudefor the many gifts sharedblogs and books Today I began reading Another Trip Around the Sun: 365 Days of Haiku for Children Young and Old. edited by Jessica Malone Latham. 2019,…
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What is a monoku? #PoeticForm #Monoku
Originally posted on Poems for Warriors: Photo by Elias Sch. on Pixabay A Monoku is a type of poem made up of a single horizontal line. Monoku emerged as an independent style of poetry in the 1970s. Unlike the traditional Haiku, which is made up of three lines with a total of seventeen syllables, Monoku…
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My Daily #Haiku (11/30/19)
11/30/19: stars morning twilightthe stars fade awayone by one #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Enigma
#Haiku Happenings #3: M.G. Iunnucci’s latest #tanka!
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Stoic
Originally posted on haiku tree: tangled branches sway and creak the stoic owl sits ?
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Great & Small
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: It is the day before Thanksgiving and it seems everyone is out picking up last minute items. People are everywhere and the traffic is crazy as impatient horns blare. I reach into my pocket and her list, hand written in pencil, is crumpled around my keys. I fish it…
Frank J. Tassone 