Tag: haibun
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/18/18): Avian Antics–my latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku # poetry
Avian Antics A red-breasted robin leaps onto a high, thin branch on the apple tree. Branch and bird swing up and down three times. Then it flies. A nearby maple tree’s high branch swings up and down. The robin? Nowhere in sight. morning clouds swaying in a passing breeze a dogwood first published in…
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Miles from Innisfree: A #haibun response to Yeats…#haiku #poetry #dversepoets #writephoto
Jilly serves up the poetry as a guest pub tender at dVerse. She challenges us to write a response poem, a poem that directly replies to another poem. When I saw Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt–distant, I thought of Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree. I knew he and I needed to talk! The Lake…
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Rûaħ: a #haibun exploring an experience of the #soul…#haiku #poetry
Breathe. Let the torrent of thoughts come. The to-do lists for work that never get done. That hello to the boss left unreturned. The wild apathy of the few in that one class. The coming commute. The restlessness of the repetition of it all. Let the flood of feelings come with that torrent of thoughts.…
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Light Bearing: a #Tanka Tuesday (1/16/18) #tankaprose #haibun …#poetry #haiku #dversepoets
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that” I never knew my about mother’s prejudice until I was almost thirteen. She deliberately chose to withold any comment, or display any attitude, that would influence me to adopt her biases. Others’ parents did not make such enlightened decisions. dark night “better…
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Bounce Back: A Riding the Dragon #Quadrille #haibun reprise…#poetry #haiku
The Dragon bucks. He spills me onto the earth. I can lie there, staring at the sky with the breath knocked out of me. Or I can bounce back up. And get back in the saddle. winter sun the only way out is through for dVerse–Quadrille #48. DeJackson hosts, and the word…
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Legacy of a Last Jedi: a #haibun chronicle of Luke Skywalker #poetry #haiku #starwars
(SPOILER ALERT: If you’re one of the handful that still hasn’t seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, be warned!) How did it all go so wrong? I was the hero of the rebellion against the empire. I was the last hope of the Jedi. But when it was time to fulfill that hope, I failed…
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#Haikai Challenge #16 (1/13/18): Freedom #haiku #senryu #tanka #haibun #renga #haiga
Photo by Jerónimo Bernot on Unsplash Well, haijin, what a ride so far! From sub-artic to spring-like to freezing once again! Yet you braved the cold to take the challenge: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Jules 3. Petru J Viljoen 4. Linda Lee Lyberg 5. Jane Dougherty 6. Merril D. Smith 7.…
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/11/18): my latest on .@ImageCurve.. #haibun #poetry
Gastronomic Insomnia Full, from dinner. Spicy beef and rice with black beans repeat. The last traces of tequila complete their work. I keep drinking water. No matter how bloated I feel. Or how sleepy. windchime rises, falls crickets chirp first published on Image Curve, January 11, 2018 Photo by Natasha Bhogal on Unsplash for…
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