Category: haikai
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PSA (11/8/19)
We will attend a college tour at Binghamton University tomorrow. Expect the next A November with Basho, Day 9 later tomorrow, and the #haikai challenge either late tomorrow or Sunday. Busy with business all of this living the dream
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A November with Basho, Day 8
Through narrow Abumizuri Pass and on, passing Shiroishi Castle, we entered Kasahima Province. We asked for directions to the gravemound of Lord Sanekata, Sei Shonagon’s exiled poet-lover, and were told to turn right in the hillds near the villages of Minowa and Kasashima wgeb we canes ti tge sgurbe if Dosojin. It lies nearly hidden…
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“Where is Vivian…” a #tanka (11/8/19)
11/8/19: seen in the lake Where is Vivan our own Lady of the lake with Excalibur? How our land needs an Arthur to bear light to this darkness! #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (11/8/19)
11/8/19: for sale November sunsetdeer grazing besidea “for sale” sign #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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A November with Basho, Day 7
Crossed on the ferry at Tsukinowa to the post town of Se-no-ue to see the ruins that were Sato Shoji’s house, beyond town to the left, near the mountains. We were told to look at Saba Moor in Iizuka, and we eventually came to Maru Hill where the castle ruins lay. Seeing the main gate…
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“aching joints…” a #tanka (11/7/19)
11/7/19: prompt free aching joints an afternoon of coming rain so much time invested for such a small return #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (11/7/19)
11/7/19: amber scattered leaves those “amber waves of grain” long gone #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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A November with Basho, Day 6
A little anxious, thinking of the Shirakawa Barrier, thinking on it day by day; but calmed my mind by remembering the old poem, “somehow sending word home.” I walked through heavy green summer forests. Many a poet inscribed a few words at one of the Three Barriers–“Autumn Winds” and “Red Maple Leaves” come to mind.…
