Category: haikai
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Merry Christmas! #haiku #poetry #Christmas
This concludes my special day-of-Christmas-eve posting. I will take off tomorrow. Merry Christmas, everyone! See you on Tuesday! green Christmas these gathering clouds promise a white Christmas
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#Senryu Saturday (12/23/17)…lost arts…#haiku #poetry
rainy Saturday savoring the forgotten joy of framing photos
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#Haikai Challenge #13 (12/23/17): Christmas #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Welcome back, haijin! Pat yourselves on the back for the marvelous job you did last week! For those of you here for the first time, behold: 1. Charley (Life in Portofino) 2. Jules 3. Zander 4. ToniKanzen 5. Pat R 6. Merril D. Smith 7. qbit 8. Xenia Tran 9. Janice (Ontheland) 10. Jane Dougherty…
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#Free-style Friday (12/22/17)…The Dark Side of Silence, encore…#haibun #poetry #haiku #Christmas
Silent Night, Silent Day Something in the way she drives. Her left hand, turned up, turned down, on and off the steering wheel. Her steely eyes, centered on the road. The 40 MPH sprints on the side streets. The utter silence. I shrink in my seat. Pity my brother, who bears this cold onslaught of…
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#Throwdown Thursday (12/21/17): my latest #haibun #poetry is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku
A Cook Against the Storm I turn on the barbeque just as a horizon-filling bank of rainclouds roll in. A sudden wind arrives. The songbirds’ ensemble speeds with urgency. I race this oncoming storm. The stakes? Our sardine dinner. rustling leaves after the rain a shimmering grill first published in Image Curve, December 21,…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: A #Tanka for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 76 – Christmas & Joy
Kiwinana asks us to use Christmas and Joy in a tanka… Christmas Eve the joy in the children’s eyes as they unwrap gifts aroma of octopus lingering in the air
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#Tanka Tuesday #1: A #Tanka for Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge #63…cover and precipitation (#synonymsonly)
Colleen asks us to use synonyms of cover and precipitation for this week’s #poetry challenge… snowfall we throw off our comforter in sudden heat Oh, if only we could spend the day nestled in our bed!
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#Monoku Monday 12/18/17 #haiku #poetry
waning Autumn another drive in darkness at five
