Enjoying the changes, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors:
Haikai Challenge Participants| 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jennifer Bates 3. Peter 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Xenia Tran | 6. Eugenia 7. Deborah 8. Pat R 9. Dwight L. Roth 10. Janice | 11. Shaun Jex 12. Jade Li/Lisa 13. Emily Karn 14. Rhen Laird 15. Linda Lee Lyberg |
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Looking ahead:
“…To the East, land of the wet wind…”
line from a ceremony, Order of the Arrow (BSA)
The pine boughs rise and fall. I hear my old wind chime ringing out underneath the deck. Cottonball cumulus float across the clearing sky. The wind is here.
There have been some blustery days. A passing tempest knocked over an adirondack chair; I mistook it for an animal one night. When it passes through our neighborhood, we hear the low woosh, a dull roar that marks its passing. As March appears on the horizon, I expect I’ll hear more and more of the wind.
What better week for the spring kigo, East Wind (Kochi)?
This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the East wind (Kochi).
As always:
Here’s how the challenge works:
1. write the haikai poem of your choice.
2. post the link of your post to Mister Linky.
3. pingback by posting the link to the challenge on your site.
4. read and comment on other contributors’ posts.
Break out those windbreakers, haijin!
Share the love. Spread the haikai:
Categories: haikai, haiku community
Frank J. Tassone 
A little better about being ‘on the ball’ this week with a (3 prompt) solo renga (title is blog link)
https://fresh.inlinkz.com/iframe/blog?u=0a869a63a59f4cb4b7d9400290a68a46
mini iris bloom
no longer can one deny
east wind’s warm caress
gifting muses everywhere
wings in the form of sigh words
what were the odds that
spring would arrive early as
snow still dots the sky
©JP/dh
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OK the link some how is wrong the title and link should be odd facts?
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Amazing prompt, Frank. In case the link doesn’t work, I’ll leave it here in the box too:
https://cobbledcontemplations.com/2020/03/01/because-of-east-wind/
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Not sure if it’s okay to do a 2nd one for the prompt…but the inspiration was there, so I went with it 🙂
https://cobbledcontemplations.com/2020/03/02/east-wind-2/
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No worries! 🙂
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Thank you, Frank 🙂
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Frank, I have a question about acceptable forms for Haikai Challenge. At shadowpoetry.com I found katauta and a double katauta, aka sedoka. Are they ok to use for this challenge?
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Hi Jade, sorry for the late response. Both the Katsura and Sedoka are fine. If it’s a form of haikai, it’s fair game for the #haikai challenge, and these forms fit! 😉
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OK cool. I was looking for a form today and ran across them and they sounded like they would fit 🙂
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