Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge II #12 (4/1/24): Poetry (uta) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust, haijin, that you enjoyed the Equinox—and the lengthening days that followed. Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Cheryl3. Eugi 4. Peter5. Kerfe6. Melissa 7. Petru Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead: Today is April first, the first day of National Poetry Month! Many of us will…
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Equinoxal Satisfaction
How I again savor the return of greater daylight after today. coming all too soon Equinox for my own #Haikai Challenge II #11
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Hatsu Hana Nostalgia
I remember the first Cherry blossoms at Branch Brook Park, between Newark and Bellville, NJ. The lines of trees along the walking paths and roads, teeming with cascades of white and pink. Grove upon grove of lush blossoms, an effervescence to intoxicate poets. Will that be my lost Rebecca? Or do I dare hope in…
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On Scribbling
Scribbling doesn’t relieve the pain of aching joints. Scribbling doesn’t stop the falling torrents, or the sudden streams flowing down our street. Scribbling doesn’t cease the constant hum of rain impacting the roof. Scribbling doesn’t ease the sandpaper sensation in the elbows. Scribbling incarnates the experience of it all. Scribbling bears witness to every facet…
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A Curious Rain
All it takes is a glimpse. A rain of English gentlemen, and I hear the Dr. Who theme que up. Is it the titular character himself, in yet another incarnation, infinitely mutiplied by some TARDIS-esque machination? It is a novel invasion by another of the Doctor’s legion of enemies? Or is it simply the banality…
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#Haikai Challenge II #11 (3/16/24): Spring Equinox (higan) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust you enjoyed whatever Daffodils you might have seen, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Eugi3. Jules 4. Carol Anne5. Suzette Benjamin6. Ben Tonkin 7. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! The official beginning of Spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere this Tuesday, March 19th!…
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An Early Spring Ebullience
A break in the cold. Fresh radiance bathes the prestine lawns of Petersville Road. Mira delights in the varieties of daffodils piercing through the verdancy. She loves their bloom. I love the joy that she takes in them. walking by blue, white, and gold petals for my own #Haikai Challenge II #10
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On “Baby”
“The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.” Muddy Waters Someone once said that “Without the word “baby,” there can be no rock and roll.” From over 40 years of listening to the blues’ child, I believe it! How did we adopt a word for the most innocent of human beings as a term of…
Frank J. Tassone 