Tag: feature
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An overlong meeting (3/6/18)…
…prevents me from posting my usual #tankaprose this evening. Expect it sometime tomorrow. Who knew a school board meeting could run n three hours? π first snowfall from the next Nor’easter the day’s fatigue
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#Silent Sunday (3/4/18)
After a breathtaking #nahaiwrimo, it’s time for a well-earned rest from #haiku. See you tomorrow.
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A #senryu Saturday (3/3/18) #haikai challenge update
The Nor’Easter passed. Winds pick up after a quiet morning. Our power returned around four this morning. My internet service has not. Only our LTE-enabled devices (like The iPhone I’m using for this post) work. Optimum, my provider, assures me they’ll restore service soon. Sure, I’ll hold my breath waiting on them! π As soon…
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Gratitude
84 haiku. 28 days. I wrote three haiku a day for each day of February! What a #nahaiwrimo! Thank you all for your likes, comments and for simply reading them! You again prove that haikai matters!
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#PSA (2/20/2018) regarding the missing Reblog Button #feature
Many have you may have noticed that our reblog buttons disappeared last Thursday. Sue Vincent sounded off on the issue earlier today: I know I am not the only one to have realised that WordPress have βlostβ the reblog button. This has been going on for several days now, and at the time of writing,…
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Every Tunnel Ends
Originally posted on Smell The Coffee: Placed in love’s graveyard, in a vortex of darkened chaos, a foreigner to kindness -charred by molten lava she endures all-without murmur The tunnel narrows light at the end driving out sorrow Hope? A silent exit she sighs -having tried. Leaving…. yet again-without murmur Β©Vivian Zems (#Quadrille) De hosts…
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On Writing #Haiku (2/10/18)… #essay #haikai
Haiku. The very word evokes the beauty of nature and the simple elegance of zen. It fascinates many poets. But for all its simplicity and beauty, haiku is often misunderstood. Misconceptions about haiku by many well-meaning poets result in “haiku” that are, in fact, three-line poems–often of a specific syllabic count, and in a familiar…
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#Publication Alert 1/30/18 #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my latest haibun The Danger of Poetry appears in the Product Poet’s latest Paper!