Tag: haibun
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#Senryu Saturday 11/11/17…a #haibun on a birthday going wrong…#haiku #poetry
Uninvited Celebrants We had plans for my birthday worked out when the French door opens. Five minutes later Mom and Dad sit at our kitchen table. As often happens living in a mother-daughter home. “We didn’t know what you guys were doing,” Dad says, “We bought a cheesecake.” “We celebrated last night,” I reply. “That…
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/8/17…my latest is up: Meltdown – #Haibun #poetry .@ImageCurve
Meltdown I’m administering a Level I Vocational Assessment to Ana, when Julian bursts into the room, He throws something that misses Myru and hits the metal cabinet housing our class’ books and folders. He drops into a worn desk. His fists repeatedly pound the surface, before opening and clasping the back of his…
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#Wayback Wednesday 11/8/17…the dark side of silence…a #haibun #haiku #poetry for .@PoetsUnited
Silent Night, Silent Day Something in the way she drives. Her left hand, turned up, turned down, on and off the steering wheel. Her steely eyes, centered on the road. The 40 MPH sprints on the side streets. The utter silence. I shrink in my seat. Pity my brother, who bears this cold onslaught…
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
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A #Haibun for Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads–Get Listed: November Edition…#poetry #haiku
Disordered Intent All those desires you deny in the daylight. The gleam of light off the handcuffs hanging from the headboard, the mutual screams in an empty house, the gnarled sheets. But how will you escape them during these lengthening nights? The lure of flesh will have its due. All your resolutions avail you not.…
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An Oil Change: a flashback #haibun for #dVerse OLN
An Oil Change A Latino couple rests on the dark-gray leather couch opposite me. His thoroughly stained white painter’s pants and Sherman white sweatshirt somehow contrast and complement her matching light-gray sweat suit. An Orthodox couple with a toddler sits on burgundy cushion chairs nearby. A rhythmic pounding blends with Asian TV and a muffled…
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/2/17…my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Morning Whine on .@ImageCurve
The coffee maker still gurgles after nearly an after hour. A steady electric hum drowns out the chorus of birdsongs, save one… Check out the rest on Image Curve!
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#Way-back Wednesday 11/1/17…final spookiness…#haibun #haiku
Encountering the Apparition The fair at Patriot’s Park in North Tarrytown bustles with people. Kids scream on the Flying Saucers and the Tilt-o-Whirl. Not so much on the carousel. Then there is the haunted house. I walk up its dark entryway. Turn left. See a flashing strobe-light. And a familiar figure: Jesus Christ. He sits…
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