Category: haikai
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Tanka Tuesday 9/5/17…old commutes over new bridges…#tanka
New Tappan Zee Bridge a clear view of the road through my windshield while a driver next to me holds up her phone smiling
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Monoku Monday 9/4/17…Revisiting the Harshness…#haiku #haibun #monoku
In Harshness In the crunch of fiberglass, a shattered mirror dangling on a wire. In the biting words of a text-message slap, the piercing cold stare of an evaluator’s review. In every word and action taken or not. In every inch of fallen snow power-thrown before sunrise. Not only in rippling lakes cold sunset…
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Silent Sunday 9/3/2017 #haiku
A rest from #haiku. I’ll be back tomorrow with another edition of #monoku Monday to kick off the week. Stay safe. Stay serene. Stay in your haiku moment.
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Senryu Saturday 9/2/17: those things forgotten #senryu #haiku #micropoetry
cold rain her search for the leggings she misplaced
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Free-verse Friday 9/1/17…Because all summers end #haibun #summersend2017
A haibun first published in Image Curve that recounts my… First Class Rich walks me to room 252, finishing some comment as he opens a steel, fire-rated door. I enter, and he closes that door behind me. Fifteen Black and Hispanic teens look up. Some dress in worn flannels over T-shirts. Others wear white tank-tops…
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Publication Alert 9/1/17: my Failed Haiku Premier! #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
I’m pleased to have two senryu premier in Failed Haiku 21! Than you, Michael Rehling! rain patter the haibun I didn’t type the haiku I wrote promises we never keep summer wind http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue21.pdf
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A #Way-back Wednesday post on a #Thursday: on mutual failure and blame
Dreaming Dad You come with us to a picnic ground. Scattered cottonball clouds float across a blue summer sky. Lush, green grass feels soft under our feet. Maple and birch trees enclose the area. We sit at a weathered picnic table splintering with age. You wear your cream short-sleeve shirt, khaki shorts and those worn,…
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Throw-down Thursday 8/31/17: What We Haven’t Done – #Haibun | Image Curve Reads
https://www.imagecurve.com/what-we-havent-done-haibun/
