Month: August 2024
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#Haiku (8/14/24)
8/14/24: soulmate after waking in each other’s arms— morning coffee #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haiku Happenings #3: “…Welcome…” by Peter Bouchier
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#Haiku Happenings #2 (8/14/24): “Today’s Haiku (August 14, 2024)” by Fay Aoyagi
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/14/24): “Haibun for a canal walk” by Jane Dougherty
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An Eternal Warrior’s Lament
Long before teaching out-of-town bigots etiquette lessons, I haunted a millennium of battlefields, and the dreams of braggadocious tyrants, for over ten millennia. Do you wonder why I’m weary? carving out warriors’ flesh & despots’ hopes a blood-dripping blade Slaughtering scores of Connaught men at the fords. Breaking the advance of the Persians for three…
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A Subway Etiquette Lesson
Everybody minds their own business in the NYC subway. Ecept for the twenty-something out-of-town bigot berating a blue-haired girl. I didn’t want to educate him. One look around the car, however, and I knew no one else would. Tired, but fed up with such mortal nonsense, I stand up & step into the personal space…
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#Haiku Happenings #9: “90812” by Sky D. Sky
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#Haiku Happenings #8: “Burnt Toast” by Petru J. Viljoen