Category: haikai
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A Gentling Art
The imagination runs wild! Cascades of caramel candy-corn torrent toward the corral. The whisperer remains seated, back straight, eyes unfocused. Imagination ninnies. Dragons scorch the house. Aliens land. Mushroom clouds burst! The whisperer remains still. Sighing, a chastened Imagination settles. returning ashore sea breeze Lillian invites us to express our imagination over at dVerse Poets’…
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#Haiku (2/5/24)
2/5/24: echo echo of an evening train waning moon #haiku #nahaiwrimo #nahaiwrimo2024 #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haiku (2/4/24)
2/4/24: delta spring sky another Delta flight departs #haiku #nahaiwrimo #nahaiwrimo2024 #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge II #5 (2/3/24): spring sea (haru no umi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
Thank you, haijin, to those of you that braved the cold. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Melissa Lemay 3. Suzette Benjamin4. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Moving forward. The traditional lunar calendar marks February as the first month of spring. Following the kigo word tradition of…
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Morning Commitment
Frank promised that he would be at Camp Bullowa by 6:45 this morning. I walked by his door at 6:30, and to my surprise, I saw that his room was empty. I walked across the cold apartment to the living room window. My car was indeed gone. before dawn braving the morning’s withering wind the…
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#Haiku (2/3/24)
2/3/24: Charlie spring dawn interrupting a walk a charlie horse #haiku #nahaiwrimo #nahaiwrimo2024 #micropoetry #poetry
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“piercing…” #tanka (2/2/24)
2/2/24: matter piercing the heart of the matter an empty furnace on a cold night #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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#Haiku (2/2/24)
2/2/24: bravo evening star the tenor hears “bravo!” for the last time #haiku #nahaiwrimo #nahaiwrimo2024 #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 