Tag: haibun
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A Jealous Moment: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
The aroma of her nail polish is so strong that I smell it from the lounge chair. And her hair? Straight and silky. All to visit our dentist—her former employer. She says no. Do I believe her? Mid-morning haze tonight a sudden rain first published in Image Curve, September 13, 2018 Photo by Allef…
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Quick Paradigm Shifts
Quickly, quickly, ever so quickly! Speeds up to 60 MPH. An entire jump in 20 seconds. I, still and rooted atop the Ski Jump, have a new, profound respect for them! But I will not follow them, thank you! echoes of miracles Lake Placid for dVerse Poets Pub– Quadrille #64 — Quick! Write Something (pubtended…
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#Haikai Challenge #50 (9/8/18): Autumn wind (aki kaze)/ Spring wind (haru kaze)/ Rosh Hashanah #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend, haijin! Many of you celebrated the day, or the turning toward Autumn! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules @ Strands 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Reena Saxena 4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. Pat R 6. Revived Writer 7. Deepa 8. Deborah…
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First Memory of Mom: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
I don’t know my first memory of Mom. I recall the photo and home movies: beehive hair, white mini. Was it when I cut my hand on that protruding stone at the daycare center? Was it the fleeting images of her cooking in our 52 Holland Avenue basement apartment? I can’t remember. Or won’t. her…
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A Moment of Charity: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 9/5/18 #TankaProse
Photo by Nathaniel Tetteh on Unsplash skyscraper sunset the outstretched reaching hands left empty Why despise charity when it’s the greatest remaining? I walked out of the grocers and into the dark. An indigent woman that mumbled incomprehensibly sat just within light of the store. Overcome by an inexplicable urge, I gave the woman a…
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September Morning: A #Haibun for #LaborDay
Labor Day. A rare chance this summer to sleep in, since Frank had only an optional practice. Still, morning comes, and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee stirs me from sleep. Eigh hours is enough, even after a night of incessant dreams. The sweltering heat belies the change to Autumn that will come.…
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#Haikai Challenge #49 (9/1/18): Labor Day/Coming of Autumn (risshuu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
By A Staff Illustrator (Frank Leslie’s Weekly Illustrated Newspaper) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons It’s not easy to step up for a cause, haijin. But the brave among you did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Revived Writer 2. Jules @ Strands 3. Deborah Gomez 4. Ken Gierke /…
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Amid the Clutter: A #FreestyleFriday (8/31/2018) .@ImageCurve #haibun
Thick reams of paper everywhere. The folders on my desk organizer bulge out with them. I can’t see the top of my desk. Jaime has no room for her piles. Even our circular conference table, tucked in the corner of the narrow office, has manila folders, crumpled worksheets, parental rights documents spread all over.…
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