Category: haiku community

  • 6 November

    Originally posted on Haiku Three Six Five. : last night’s scent of fire – the sense of forgetting, of life slowly slipping.

  • Electoral Choices: a #Renga Soliloquy #Quadrille

        Election day … In the blink of an eye we seal our fate   Will it be a wink and nod or a cold, steady gaze?   So many years since Palin’s famous wink … Election day   Is a steady gaze enough?     for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #68 (pubtended by De…

  • on votes and pixels: haibun musings

    Originally posted on Ontheland: October 22 was municipal Election Day in my home province, Ontario…we voted for mayors, councillors, and school trustees. Before voting, I set out to gather information about the candidates. I was dismayed when I found how little information was available for the election in my rural township. The small newspaper of the…

  • Democracy

    Originally posted on Roth Poetry: Yesterday, I cast my early vote at our local library. The candidates and supporters were confined to a yellow tape line on the sidewalk. It was set up to avoid harassment of people coming to vote. You could go to them, but you could also ignore them if you wished.…

  • Election Day/Democracy

    #Haiku Happenings #4: Helene’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!

  • My Daily #Haiku (11/5/18)

    11/5/18: birth brightening sky … another anniversary of birth in six days #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • s 11.4 A Vote for Sanity, Anyone?/ 3 prompts/ Glose-haibun | Jules Longer Strands of Gems

    #Haiku Happenings #3: Jules’ latest poetic #haibun for my current #haikai challenge! A Vote for Sanity, Anyone? All those proclamations of a grand healing Out of the mouths of mates for offices running Whilst double handed dealing Hardly any good words golden or stunning Pitches to the masses fleeting Bespeaks of promises just to be…

  • Tentacles of Power

    Tentacles of Power

    #Haiku Happenings #2: Reena’s latest #tanka sequence for my current #haikai challenge!