Category: haiku community
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Haikai challenge: Thanksgiving
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: A five line poem in tanka form for Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. I know this isn’t a true tanka, but the subject matter isn’t either, so I took liberties. ? Some give thanks for life, for being spared, yet winter comes then spring, always; the sky holds us all,…
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Harvesting goodwill
#Haiku Happenings #2: Reena Saxena’s haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thanksgiving
Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Every breath a gift Too soon taken for granted. Thanksgiving’s inhale Winter creeping in too soon Thankfully spring is on the way ************************ Photo: Dwight L. Roth Written for Frank Tassone’s Haikai poem thinking about Thanksgiving. I decided to do a Tanka in appreciation of life. Join us at: https://frankjtassone.com/2018/11/17/haikai-challenge-61-11-17-18-thanksgiving-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/…
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Post-Thanksgiving Gratitude: a #PSA #haibun
Sometimes it’s important to take a step back. That’s why I needed an extended recess: to step back, reflect, and listen. To what my writer’s intuition tells me with a calm, clear mind. To rest the creativity that I draw on to write. To clearly follow the path of poetry. I have done…
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#SilentSunday (11/18/18)
A well-needed rest from #haiku I will take an early Thanksgiving break this week. See you next Monday.
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#Haikai Challenge #61 (11/17/18): Thanksgiving #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Freedom from Want. Norman Rockwell [Public domain] courtesy of Wikipedia Thank you for your acknowledgement of the Centennary Armistice Day, and for honoring our Veterans, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. The Dark Netizen 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Jules @ Strands 5. Merril D.…
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Haibun: aki fukashi
Originally posted on kanzen sakura: For Toads Tuesday Platform. 秋深し (あきふかし Autumn Deepens Meigetsu: the harvest moon is fading. Bright gold coin in the black sky dims and wanes to a partial dish of cream. Hatsu grashi – the first storm of autumn has washed the sky clean. Aki simu – autumn is clearing –…
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Encouragement, Gratitude, and Hope
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: I am just beginning to work on a second large print chapbook. My goal is to finish some time next year. Good to have goals, and I can revise my goals as needed. * Quiet Christmas Poetry is still in print and can be ordered from the Time Of…
