Category: haiku community

  • Tanka with polytoton

    Originally posted on lillian the home poet: Shadowed moon flickers on windblown cornstalk stubble. Red fox stalks its prey, hunting through snow covered field. Hunter in wool cap takes aim. Frank hosts dVerse tonight, the virtual pub for poets. We are to consider the polytoton: rhetorical repetition of words within a poem, but each time used in…

  • autumn colour – – haiku

    Originally posted on Ontheland: autumn colour in a bowl of hot soup summer returns . . ©️2019 Ontheland

  • My Daily #Haiku (10/24/19)

    10/24/19: hospital room Autumn chill Mom’s hospital room has someone new haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Today’s Haiku (October 24, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 本棚のリルケ詩集や青蜜柑  米田清文 hondana no riruke shishû ya aomikan             Rilke’s poetry collection             in the bookshelf–             green tangerines                                                 Kiyofumi Yoneta from ‘Kakyô” (‘Home Country’), a haiku collection of Kiyofumi Yoneda, Furansu-do, Tokyo, 2017 Fay’s Note:  ‘aomikan’ (green tangerine orange) is an autumn kigo.   FYI: …

  • haiku: dawn oak…

    Originally posted on Haiku For Living: . dawn oak black at sun’s rising the fast-gripped earth         .

  • #Haikai Challenge #109 (10/20/19): scarecrow (kakashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Originally posted on Sharing Thoughts: ? mask of the scarecrow to scare the criticizer he puts on always ? ?

  • “that coyote…” a #tanka (10/23/19)

    10/23/19: create my own mythology that coyote I witnessed in the Rockies all those years ago how I transform the moment one haikai at a time #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Originally posted on This Lust My Ceaseless Koan: sunbright stillon the cold sidewalkbumblebee