Month: August 2020
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#Haikai Challenge #151 (8/9/20): first (autumn) storm (hatsu arashi) / Darkness (Yami) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
How was your moon-gazing, haijin? Many of you may have enjoyed it! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Goutam Dutta2. s.s.3. Jane Dougherty4. Jules5. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 6. willowdot217. Eugenia8. Christine Bolton9. Linda Lee Lyberg10. Li/Lisa Fox — West Michigan, USA 11. Kerfe Roig12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr (2)13. Xenia Tran14.…
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Originally posted on Discourse This!: A beautiful day As the wind ruffles the trees A fleeting moment (C) Gunnar Larson 8-9-20
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wisdom in patience – a poem
Originally posted on ronovanwrites: If you get caught up in an offense someone does against you, you will never complete a mission you have set for yourself. Movements pitter out, fade away. Then nothing is accomplished. Offenses are used as misdirection to distract you and then the foe wins. e’er your zeal should be free…
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fragrance of leaves
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: fragrance of leavesin the gardenswhat good friendswe becameas we grew older My poem has been published online: Tanka by Ellen Grace Olinger Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s BlogAugust 8, 2020 A book: They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press,…
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The Open Secret of Wayfaring: a #tanka-prose
If you are a wayfarer, you follow the Way. It is as simple, and as difficult, as that. Did you think it would be complicated? or easy? running brook the rocks within eroded smooth over time phenomena on the path: obstacle, or stepping stone? for 8th August 2020 prompt: Gerry Muse #219 (occasional tanka prose)The…
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Day – 317- Haibun Journey Daily Thoughts – Birds and more – Ada’s Poetry Alcove
#Haiku Happenings #6: Ada’s latest #haibun! Today’s morning was filled with bird antics, the afternoon with some weird caterpillar covers in twigs and this evening a stay cat. Sometimes I feel like everything wants a home at my house. I started the day watching a funny little wren hopping about the porch. Next on the…
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Tanka: Earthlight
#Haiku Happenings #5: Xenia Trans’ latest #taiga appears in Ribbons!
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#Haiku Happenings #3: Scott Metz presents and #AmericanSentence by Richard Gilbert.
Frank J. Tassone 