Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #24 (3/10/18): Snow (Yuki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Courtesy of ABC News, March 7, 2018 Were you blown away, haijin? I know I was! Congrats to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules 2. Jane Dougherty 3. Vivian Zems 4. Reena Saxena 5. Jules 2 6. Janice (Ontheland) 7. Jane Dougherty (2) 8. Xenia Tran 9. Linda Lee Lyberg 10.…
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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? 😆 first snowfall from the next Nor’easter the day’s fatigue
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A Love Token: a #tankaprose… #haiku #haibun #tanka
Photo by Carlos Quintero on Unsplash you revive all my words of love from our green moments a present you present me one bright afternoon There they are. Every verse I ever wrote, on every card I ever gave. All typed in Times-New Roman font in a word file. You print me the file you created…
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No Ke Me: an .@ImageCurve #haibun for #dversepoets
Fickle Weather A gray canopy scatters in a sudden wind. Sunlight bathes the parched grass in radiance it no longer needs. A moment later, one last cloudbank eclipses the sun. budding Maple yearning for warmer days more by FRANK J. TASSONE photograph by Sam X first published in Image Curve, March 17,…
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#Haikai Challenge #23 (3/3/18): first spring gust (haru ichiban) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #renga #haiga
By The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Welcome back, haijin! Many of you risked whiplash contemplating this Spring-winter-spring season we’re experiencing, especially in the Northeastern US. Here’s who shared: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jane Dougherty 3. KanzenToni 4. KanzenToni 5. Victoria Slotto 6.…
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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! 😆 As soon…
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Powerless pleasures #haiku #haibun #poetry
Nor’Easter. the house trembles under buffering winds. Fresh inches of snow accumulate. A blackout since morning. But what a fire! winter storm A pasta dinner watching snow
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/1/18): my latest #haibun—An Unimportant Failure – is up on .@ImageCurve
Happy that my latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve today! An Unimportant Failure BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 1ST MARCH 2018 Nothing worth remembering. That fifth period class—where Moesha braided Katherine’s hair, Neina screamed; and Chastery, Jowayne and Zaire did no work—fades to insignificance. No homes called, no repercussions planned—only the slightest sense that my…
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