Category: haikai
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Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 5: July 29, 2014 | Image Curve
The Sterling Pond trail sharply ascends the forested slope of Sterling Mountain. The Smuggler’s caves, rest rooms and parking lot lie across Route 108, nestled beneath Mount Mansfield’s western ridge. Step-like stones lead to rocks, soil and roots. We breathe hard before the first straight-away. Finally, we make it to the pond. Different couples and…
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My Daily #Haiku (4/25/19)
4/25/19: xerox vacation midpoint … the jammed xerox machines in the work room #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 #GloPoWriMo2019 25/30
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Complete Spring Day
Rippling blossoms in a young tree in bloom. Fresh dandelions growing on greening lawns. Radiant white pillars of a neighbors house bathed in afternoon sunlight. The hum of leaf-blowers and woodchoppers. Warm enough to walk outside. Cool enough to stay in. Such are the signs of Spring during April Days north of the equator. Like…
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“A lullaby…” a #tanka (4/24/19)
4/24/19: mother memory a lullaby of Ireland’s creation Mom would sing to me a soft rustle of oak leaves from a whisper of wind #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 #GloPoWriMo2019
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My Daily #Haiku (4/24/19)
4/24/19: yeast dogwood blossoms … Easter bread rising after yeast #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 24/30
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A Ghost Wolf’s Last Hunt
I watch my mate from a distance. She wimpers next to my corpse. Hot blood still flows from the gunshot wound that stopped my heart. I watch my mate sniff once, twice, then wimper again. I throw back my head and unleash a howl that she cannot hear. She must rejoin the pack. Our family…
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“Webber Park house…” a #tanka (4/23/19)
4/23/19: returning to an old neighborhood Webber Park house the stump of the apple tree still in the backyard I remember the adage, “you can’t go home again.” #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 #GloPoWriMo2019
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My Daily #Haiku (4/23/19)
4/23/19: yearly scampering squirrels — our yearly dental visit this afternoon #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 23/30
