Tag: dVerse
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A Gratitude Announcement (8/13/18)
I guest-hosted dVerse Poets Pub’s Haibun Monday last week. What an exhilerating experience! Thank you, Grace, for the invitation; everyone on the dVerse team, for your hard work keeping the pub open, and all of the poets that participated! emerging sun celebrating the language we call poetry
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The Message of Hiroshima Day
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony & Peace Message Lantern Floating Ceremony I watched the Gozilla movies the day after Thanksgiving when I was growing up. The inconic road, the atomic fire, the wanton destruction of Tokyo or other monster: I lapped it all up. Caught up in my joy, I never understood then what…
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Everyday Duplicity: a #ThrowdownThursday (8/2/18) #Tanka
cicada song … the moments we take for granted How many shadows can we hide within? for dVerse Poets’ MTB: Punctuation and enjambment in poetry (pubtended by Bjorn) and my own #Haikai Challenge #44 (7/28/18): Cicada (Semi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
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Conflicting Silence: A #TankaTuesday (7/31/18) #TankaProse
The sun tries to break through. The clouds that gathered will not scatter. A temperature more consistent with spring than summer holds steady. It was perfect weather to repair the paver stones on the front stoop, or write outside all morning. I did neither, becoming lost in folly on the internet. And so…
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“A Nice Game of Chess”: A #dversepoets #quadrille #haibun
White moves King’s pawn to E4. Black answers with Queen’s knight to F6. I process combinations. My opponent runs sub-routines. A flurry of moves. Pawns fall, Bishops pin, Queens clash. Until the puzzle is complete. pale sun afternoon — victory for dVerse Poets Quadrille #61 (pubtended by Mish) …
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Vernal Inauguration: A #ThrowdownThursday #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
The train rattles to the top of the hill. Two American flags stand like sentries at the apex. The stage, the other side of the park, the Long Island shoreline across the Sound all lie in sight for one fleeting moment. Then the train rushes down the first turn, accelerating. Next, it descends…
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Solstice Sequence: A #haiku couplet
solstice evening … the neighbor’s drumming continues evening birdsongs … the daylit sky still in view for dVerse Poets MTB — Couplets for the Solstice (pubtended by Frank Hubeny). Frank asks us to write a couplet for the solstice. I wrote a sequence of two one-line haiku, whose last words…
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Of Medicinal Malice and Momentary Humanity: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Children wait at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua State, Mexico on June 20, 2018. Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images Somewhere in south Texas, a child cries. Uniformed men pulled him from his screaming mother’s arms, and brought him far away. He sits by a cot, surrounded by other…
