Category: haikai

  • My Daily #Haiku / #Senryu (6/29/21)

    6/29/21: greenhouse this scorcher…the greenhouse effectcontinues #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/28/21)

    6/28/21: gardening gloves Zenithshe still puts them ongardening gloves #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • “tangled sheets…” a #tanka/#kyoka (6/27/21)

    6/27/21: unprompted tangled sheetsthe “Summer of 69” fora school year’s endno one to hearour muffled cries #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

  • On Any Given Day

    Somewhere, a white butterfly floats above greenery in garden beds. A neighbor’s dog barks at whatever triggered it. Afternoon birds continue their tweets and chirps, hidden among a canopy of maple leaves Somewhere, boughs sway and leves rustle. A chartered jet flies overhead. Sunlight brightens on the backyard’s mix of freshly mowed grass and crabgrass.…

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/27/21)

    6/27/21: trees scorching heatmaple leaves rustling ina summer wind #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haikai Challenge #195-197 (Trifecta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    I hope you refreshed yourselves, haijin! Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Li/Lisa in W MI USA 3. Jules4. Goutam Dutta 5. Revived Writer6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! I stumbled through a busy June. Here we are, three weeks since the last #Haikai…

  • Nightmares like this: a #Tankaprose

    A respectable woman, sipping tea with others women of her station, exchanging chuckles and pleasantries. No one remarked when she excuses herself from their company after a certain server passed by. She passes through the crowded chamber, down the labyrinthine corridors of the grand vessal, until she comes to a small, cramped chamber. A brief…

  • My Daily #Haiku (6/26/21)

    6/26/21: gate chewed-up dill…measurementsfor a new gate #haiku #micropoetry #poetry