Category: haikai
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#Monoku Monday 10/2/17…a glimpse of Agape…#haiku
immortality dying in love crucifix
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#Blogiversary Taps #haiku #haibun
This concludes my blogiversary Sunday showcase. My thanks to all of you that visited, viewed liked or commented today. Thank you, followers, visitors and viewers for a great year! I’m looking forward to many more Mezza Luna Only these crickets interrupt A silent Sunday
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#Senryu Sunday special 10/1/17) : I’m happy to appear again in Failed Haiku! #Haiku #haibun .@SenryuJournal
In Memoriam 9/11/17 I can almost forget. Almost, but never. The impact of the second plane. The plumes of black smoke. The bodies falling through the sunny sky. The rumble. The towers’ collapse. The enveloping white cloud filled with asbestos and powdery debris. Later, the candle memorials. The photograph collages of loved ones. The newscaster’s…
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#Free-style Friday: a #haibun for #dVerse Poets’ Pub’s MTB – sleep
Her Infirmity is My Insomnia I wake up at four in the morning. Try and sleep again. Mira coughs, inhales hard. Coughs again. She gets up and sprays her nostrils with her over-the-counter spray. I listen to her. All the while hoping for a sleep that does not come. sparrow’s song beneath a brightening sky bare maples…
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#Throw-down Thursday 9/28/17: my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Spring Recess Reverie | .@ImageCurve
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#Wayback Wednesday 9/27/17…an .@ImageCurve #haibun concerning a close encounter…
Empty Intimacies The towers of the George Washington Bridge straddle the traffic. The constant drone outside our motel room is our own urban surf. Inside, a musty smell from the carpet complements the faded wall-paper peeling at the corners. We dress. Step outside into a hot, sticky August night. Like the last two…
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A #Haiku for Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 52
First, a belated, happy blogversary to Colleen Chesebro! She celebrates her one-year milestone with challenge no 52: Joy and Spirit. Here is my challenge-accepted haiku: old spiritual fleeting joy in his eyes homeless veteran
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#Tanka Tuesday 9/26/17…A Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge-64 and dVerse birthstone poem prompt
glittering topaz surrounded by history more gilded than gold no birthstone compares to the fragility of our lives For Rambling of a Writer’s Weekly Tanka Challenge-64 and dVerse Poet Pub’s This One’s for you!
