Haijin in Action

  • Meditation in Blue: a #Quadrille #Gembun #sequence

    Blues riff on a cocktail napkin a single tear They want my blue eyes. If they only knew … clear sky rustling leaves summer wind The talk of a coming “Blue Tsunami…” As if. all the calm of the ocean politics Traveling these blue ways … for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #107 – Blue Monday (pubtended by…

  • nd 7.12 Angry, Frustrated, Sizzle Spam Hot?! 4p – Jules Pens Some Gems…

    #Haiku Happenings #9: Jules’ latest #haibun / solo #renga for my current #haikai challenge! Angry, Frustrated, Sizzle Spam Hot?!(99 word reverse solo renga haibun) who is Monreal Dorb?hot jammer spammer dude?dead end cul de sac? just the way things are sometimes?does he lack true courtesy? does the attentionthat he seeks warrant us allto say; “Let…

  • relentless – – tanka

    Originally posted on Ontheland: relentless heat moisture draining from the vines the gardener roams with hope and a bucket . . ©️2020 Ontheland Haikai Challenge #147 – – smoldering hot

  • Gogyohka for heat and birdsong

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXnPhVSPH7E sun melts and drips yellow as an oriole’s feathers into the hush with the sweet golden fluting of his song ? among the leaves limp with sun where wood pigeons croon lullabies shade dapples flash with spread wings and the heat sings…

  • “droning lawnmowers…” a #tanka (7/13/20)

    7/13/20: # PROMPT – one day one breath at a time droning lawnmowers and the rattle from laundry in the dryer I bear with their sadness one day–one breath–at a time #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Keep It Standing

    Keep It Standing

    #Haiku Happenings #6: Dave Madden’s latest #senryu for my current #haikai challenge!

  • moyuru ~ a tanka

    Originally posted on Mindfills: teasing summer’s jealoused smouldering tempests ~ slivers of wild wind clouds line up fire hydrants rain-drenched in mischief *** Mindfills by s.s. for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge – moyuru Photo – skies decide … Corbett National Park, 2016

  • Summer’s Folly

    Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: summer’s folly smoldering heat, to dark clouds – smell of quenched earth Pat R 7/11/20 For Frank Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge where the prompt is “Smoldering” ?

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