Category: haiku community
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mid-air
Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: raindrops falling on falling leaves
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A November with Basho, Day 4
Set out to see the Murder Stone, Sessho-seki, on a borrowed horse, and the man leading it asked for a poem. “Something beautiful, please.” The horse turns his head– from across the wide plain, a cuckoo’s cry Basho, “Narrow Road to the Interior,” Translated by Sam Hamil, The Essential Basho, pg. 8-9 Another Momento Mori…
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life plans
Originally posted on Ontheland: life plans trailing the sun few birds twitter this cold November night a shift to C minor . . ©️2019 Ontheland Inspired by November with Basho Day 2: Very Early on the twenty-seventh morning of the third moon, under a predawn haze, transparent moon barely visible, Mount Fuji just a shadow,…
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Salt Rock
Originally posted on Icebox: Slankamen (lit. ‘Salt-rock’) is a port village sandwiched, like a slice of ham (today roasted), between precipitous loess hills and an inlet of the Danube, where the water hardly moves at all. Mum and I approach the village on a descending serpentine road incised into brittle, yellowish sediments. Alas, no chance…
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Haibun: Mist Rising
#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!
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“Autumn twilight…” a #tanka (11/4/19)
11/4/19: seed pods Autumn twilight the end of daylight savings and time for seed pods the first frost of the season glistens on the browning grass #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Drawing To A Close
Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: In Response To: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #111 (11/2/19): withering wind (kogarashi) – This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that states or alludes to withering wind (kogarashi). withering wind prepares trees for Winter ~ * ~ Photo Credit: Mikhail Kapychka…
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#Haikai Challenge #111: withering wind (kogarashi)
Originally posted on Tao-Talk: Pine boughs bent with snow Hide birds from numbing death Withering winds hunt ? Winter’s shortened days Farenheit falls, wind gallops Whistling ‘cross the plain ? https://youtu.be/THwEGyBR5GM Lost in blind blizzard A traveler lays down Now warm and sleepy Horizontal winds bring Lullabies from heaven Frank J. Tassone is the host…
