Category: haikai

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/8/19)

    5/8/19: I hear you a counselor listens as a student cries — the long ride home #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • The Vanity of Our Theorizing

    I read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I shuddered when Phaedrus articulated his theory of “quality,” only to experience a breakdown when he realizes that he simply rediscovered Laoxi’s insight–codified in the Tao Te Ching some 500 years before the birth of Christ: The way you can go isn’t the real…

  • “Still watching…” a #tanka (5/7/19)

    5/7/19: child at heart still watching Marvel action movies drawing the line at conventions, cosplay and multiple theater viewings #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/7/19)

    5/7/19: misfit birdsong solo — the island of misfit toys left behind #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Get Up: a #Quadrille #Haibun

    Yes, I’ve fallen. But I can get up. A thousand, thousand times I’ve kissed the ground. A thousand, thousand and one I’ve kissed the sky. I’m only a breath away from rising again. all of the years since “Eye of the tiger” cloud-piercing sun for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #79 (pubtended by De Jackson, where she…

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/6/19)

    5/6/19: rough another drive ends in the rough … that game of golf #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

  • Special Announcement (5/5/19)!

    I am honored to announce that I have joined the team at dVerse Poets Pub! Thank you, Bjorn, for your invitation, Grace, for your invaluable support during my transition, and the entire d’Verse Team for their warm welcome! I hope to premier on the May 27th Haibun Monday. I leave you with my dVerse bio:…

  • #Haikai Challenge #84 (5/5/19): trees newly green (shinju) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Hope you enjoyed your blossom haze, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa2. Isabel Caves3. Janice4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. Jules6. Helene Vaillant7. Leyda Bien8. Xenia Tran 9. Deborah10. Pat R11. Revived Writer12. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! May has arrived. But to the New…