Category: haikai
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A November with Basho, Day 11
Here (Hiraizumi) three generations of the Fujiwara clan passed as though in a dream. The great outer gates lay in runis. Where Hidehira’s manor stood, rice fields grew. Only Mount Kinkei remained. I climbed the hill where Yoshitsune died; I saw the Kitakami, a broad stream flowing down through the Nambu plain, the Koromo River…
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“browning leaves…” a #tanka (11/11/19)
11/11/19: mirror image dream browning leaves so the mirror image dream of departed spring bow your heads in gratitude to our Veterans today #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #VeteransDay2019
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My Daily #Haiku (11/11/19)
11/11/19: remembrance Veterans Day a parade up Lafayette in remembrance #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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#SilentSunday (11/10/19)
And now, a rest from #haiku. Tomorrow is my birthday. Expect me when you see me!
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A November with Basho, Day 10
Ojima Beach is not–as its name implies–an island, but a strand projected into the bay. Here one finds the runis of Ungo Zenji’s hermitage and the rock where he sat zazen…Smoke of burning leaves and pine cones drew me on, touching something deep inside. Then the moon rose, shining on the sea, day turned suddenly…
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#Haikai Challenge #112 (11/10/19): Veterans Day/Beaver Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Endured the wind long enough, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Indira3. Jules4. Tessa5. Dwight L. Roth 6. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr7. Reena Saxena8. Jade Li/Lisa9. Deborah10. Xenia Tran 11. Kerfe Roig12. Linda Lee Lyberg13. Janice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! November progresses, and here in the Hudson…
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A November with Basho, Day 9
Deeply touched by the famous pine at Takekuma, twin trunks just as long ago… reported to have been cut down and replaced several times, it stood like a relic of a thousand years, impossibly perfect. The poet Kyohaka had given me a poem at my departure: remember to show my master the famous Takekuma pine,…
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My Daily #Haiku (11/9/19)
11/9/19: rainbow Autumn morning a rainbow of fallen leaves #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
