Category: haikai
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Haibun – My Grandmother’s Refrigerator
Originally posted on Life in Portofino: I kid you not, it said “International Harvester” on the door! On the white door with chrome accents, a car from the Fifties set on end. The handle required a forceful pull to unlatch – no magnets or vacuum suck. Inside a white and chrome freezer door. Chrome was big…
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Getting schooled
Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: One Sunday long, long ago, I went to religious school and got roped into an impromptu play. One more person was needed to fill the ranks, and that person – despite my protests – turned out to be me. It wasn’t much of a play, really, which was…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2…Chillin’ out
Ode to our refrigerator Look what you hold inside, you stainless steel superconductor of cold. There’s the homemade lentil soup Mira made last night. And not far along Your offering shelf, anothe r of her dishes in a container, ready to go to work. The Brita pitcher, orange juice, the creamer we always return to…
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/10/17…of #ghosts, #hauntings, #beauty and #dreams
early twilight a seat in my late mother’s chair, glimpsing her ghost haunt me in every glimpse of the mirror before me For Colleen’s this week–ghost and haunt beauty of your face as I awaken from dreams of losing you a trial I may face someday but not today For Kiwinana’s…
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Our Witness #haibun #haiku #Quadrille #dVerse
We saw firefighters raise the flag at Ground Zero. Twin Tower girders forged into a cross. a woman use her SUV as an ambulance while shots fired. Those gave their lives for others when bullets fell. We are Hope’s witnesses. After this darkness light for dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille…
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#Monoku Monday 10/9/17…#haiku
Columbus Day Cross-Country practice in the rain
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#Senryu Saturday…Ah, Marital blisss…
A Burger King Conversation “I used to stop in New Paltz after class for these chicken sandwiches.” “No wonder you were so fat!” Thruway rest stop after seventeen years still newlyweds
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#Free-verse Friday 10/6/17…Passing seasons and Opportunities… #haiku #haibun
Spring Party, Autumn Post His son’s face is covered in a greenish-yellow goo! Chris holds his daughter, showing an “aw shucks” grin. I stare at his Facebook photo. The last time he called, I knelt on a sub floor, laying $4.00/tile Italian Porcelain with Jeff. He and I were finishing the renovation of my kitchen.…
