Category: haikai
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#Tanka Tuesday 9/19/17…my entry for Colleen’s #poetry #haiku #haibun #tanka
cricket’s song a gift left unopened in the moonlight a missed anniversary not easily forgiven H/T Colleen Chesebro https://cmchesebro.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/091817_1725_colleenswee6.png?w=280&zoom=2
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#Haibun Why I Write the way I do…DVerse’s Haibun Monday
Because I can. Because every memory screams story in images. Because haiku alone ain’t enough. Because each turn of phrase breathes fresh life into me. Because I must. Oktoberfest eve A sudden flight of blue jays For DVerse Haibun Monday H/T Qbit
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#Monoku Monday 9/18/17…another one-line #haiku
Groaning truck—hawk circling overhead
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#Poetry Performance Update 9/16/17 #haiku #haibun
I plan to perform tonight. I know, I said that last night. Honestly, it’s happening tonight. Need a good night out? Rockland Poetry’s monthly Open Mic in Suffern, NY has you covered! Check it out! https://www.facebook.com/events/730471313802940??ti=ia
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#Senryu Saturday 9/16/17
rain patter the haibun I didn’t type the haiku I wrote promises we never keep summer wind first published in Failed Haiku 21
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#Free-Style Friday: #haiku
splattered raindrops another nebulizer treatment first published A Splash of Water, HSA Members Anthology 2015 sudden rain still singing in Maples red-breasted robins Full of Moonlight, HSA Members Anthology 2016 Christmas truce cigarettes exchanged across No Man’s Land First published in Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration(p. 39), THF, 2017
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#Throwdown Thursday: my latest from .@ImageCurve is up! #haibun
Check it out!
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#Way-back Wednesday 9/13/17: a #haibun concerning bad news… #haiku
That Call The phone rings as I zip up Frankie’s jacket. It’s Mom. She and Dad are at the oncologist for the results of Dad’s biopsy and CAT scan. All she says are two words. “It’s positive.” I stop zipping my son’s coat. The light off the tiled landing, the specks of lint and cotton…
