Category: haiku community
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Solstice Sorrow
First light arrives before five in the morning. The birdsongs arrive with it. A cacophony of twittering, and avian arias, shatter my sleep, and any hopes of returning to it. By afternoon, however, a scattering of songs—at well-spaced intervals—may arise. This abundance of radiance—so close to the end of the academic year. This longest day—followed…
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Haibun Monday 6-20-22: Solstice
Originally posted on dVerse: Welcome, poets! I am Frank Tassone, your host for today’s Haibun Monday! Today, we blend prose and haiku together to craft that famous Japanese poetic form. And today, our inspiration is the first solstice of the year! Summer Solstice? Or Winter Solstice? You decide. Because that depends on which side of…
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Happy Father’s Day
Originally posted on Heed not Steve: Father’s Day –he settles intolove’s gravity —— © Steve Mitchell 2022 — Happy Father’s Day, Dad! I love you.
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cento tanka — June 21
Originally posted on Peter Frankis writes: who wrote these lyrics? the house is loud?with autumn rain the night air is…bright it’s already 2 a.m this strange thing must have crept Image: Hill 60 is the ‘exclusive’ end of Port Kembla (doesn’t stop lime leaking from their cement render does it?) A cento tanka comprised as…
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“a soft…” a #tanka (6/20/22)
6/20/22: unprompted a softwhoosh of windherean afternoon coolpassing away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Mark M. Redfearn’s “In memoriam…”
#Haiku Happenings #5: Mark M. Redfearn’s latest haiku! In memoriam— my cousin names her roses for her dead sisters. Mark M. Redfearn
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#Haiku Happenings #5: Rajani Radhakrishnan’s latest haibun!
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Nulled
Originally posted on the other bunny: At the end of the string I am holding there is a cloud. I walk a puddle on a lead. Above my head dark balloons gather. Soon it will rain cats and dogs. thunderhead— clay dolls in children’s tombs Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai
