Category: haiku community
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#Haiku Happenings #2 (8/14/24): “Today’s Haiku (August 14, 2024)” by Fay Aoyagi
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (8/14/24): “Haibun for a canal walk” by Jane Dougherty
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An Eternal Warrior’s Lament
Long before teaching out-of-town bigots etiquette lessons, I haunted a millennium of battlefields, and the dreams of braggadocious tyrants, for over ten millennia. Do you wonder why I’m weary? carving out warriors’ flesh & despots’ hopes a blood-dripping blade Slaughtering scores of Connaught men at the fords. Breaking the advance of the Persians for three…
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A Subway Etiquette Lesson
Everybody minds their own business in the NYC subway. Ecept for the twenty-something out-of-town bigot berating a blue-haired girl. I didn’t want to educate him. One look around the car, however, and I knew no one else would. Tired, but fed up with such mortal nonsense, I stand up & step into the personal space…
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#Haiku Happenings #9: “90812” by Sky D. Sky
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#Haiku Happenings #8: “Burnt Toast” by Petru J. Viljoen
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#Haiku Happenings #7: “Sequential” by Steve Mitchell
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“a walk past…” a #tanka (8/13/24) #TankaTuesday
8/13/24: blackberries a walk past a front-yeard garden with sunflowers we salivate for the blackberries to come #tanka#micropoetry#poetry for Colleen Chesebro’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 47, 8/13/24, Part II: The Beginning of Autumn