Category: haikai
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My Daily #Haiku #2 (6/25/19)
fireflies how the nice guy finishes first #HaikuChallenge (nice) #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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“four days since solstice…” a #tanka (6/25/19)
6/25/19: solstice mood four days since Solstice and the midsummer rains continue to fall I long for the promise of summer sun #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (6/25/19)
6/25/19: center summer rain in the center of the storm morning birdsongs #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (6/24/19)
6/24/19: leave summer vacation … three more days until I leave these work cares behind #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge #91 (6/22/19) midsummer rain (samidare) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
I hope you savored the solstice, haijin! I know I did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Reena Saxena2. Jane Dougherty3. Jules4. Dwight L. Roth 5. Linda Lee Lyberg6. Tessa7. Janice8. Xenia Tran 9. Revived Writer10. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr11. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: Summer…
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Mountain Meditation: a #tankaprose
Sit. Gaze upon me. Learn. I bear the storms that weather me blunt. I endure the searing sun the scours my surface clean. I stand. Strength in stillness: this you learn from me. Stop your petulant, random motion, so like a storm-tossed sea. Stand in your stillness. Feel your root. Then you’ll not sway at…
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My Daily #Haiku (6/22/19)
6/22/19: plan today’s lawn mowing … “best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry.” #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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Adieu, ye Midsummer’s Day! (a #haibun)
Daylight yields to darkness in the twilight. It’s nine o’clock in “New York’s backyard,” but still some light remains. Even if it dwindles. The first–and longest–day of summer thus makes way for the first–and shortest–night of this season. Already the temperature drops, as though Autumn can’t wait to upstage the sunny season to come. as…
Frank J. Tassone 