Month: June 2022
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Where the light draws no shadows
#Haiku Happenings #3: Rajani Radhakrishnan’s latest #haibun!
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3 Tanka: June 15, 2022
Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: sudden chill a dragonfly skip jives with its reflection . . . when did you stop finding us amazing by Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) Honorable Mention, Sanford Goldstein Competition 2019 Tanka Society of America family photo: my father’s father before the booze before the…
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Haibun for an encounter
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Before it got too hot, I took the dogs out for a walk around the newly mown meadows. Yesterday our walk was curtailed because Trixie followed us and a cat in a field is fair game as far as dogs are concerned. The day before we had to double…
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My Daily #Haiku (6/15/22)
6/15/22: ranch real scorcherdrowning in ranch dressinga fresh salad #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Haibun for wild maps
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Paul Brookes’ 30DayWild challenge. Haibun for wild maps These fields are veined with running feet, the hooved and the padded, the broad forked twig-feet of pheasants. Through the long grass they run, tunnelled through bramble, broadening to the crushed stalks of temporary resting places. River banks are scored…
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book reviews
Originally posted on Haiku Art Site: book reviewsnews about writersI have read for years by Ellen Grace Olinger The new Modern Haiku arrived yesterday.
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Today’s Haiku (June 15, 2022)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ゴキブリが邪馬台国を探査中 豊里友行 gokiburi ga yamataikoku o tansaku-chû ??????????? cockroach… ??????????? it is searching for ??????????? the Kingdom of Yamatai ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tomoyuki Toyozato from Haidan, (Haiku Stage) a monthly haiku magazine, August 2016 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note:? “cockroach” is a summer kigo.? The Kingdom of…
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In Absentia Ponderings
A sweltering heat arises. The muffled hum of window-unit air conditioners from other classrooms penetrates the relative silence of the one in which I currently sit. Lights and AC off: I have need of neither, yet. The intricacies of this profound writer’s block continue to challenge me. True, the competing concerns of work and volunteering…