Tag: haibun
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An Embracing Art
Trust, even when twilight wanes, for daylight waxes soon enough. crying out during meditation another breath Lillian hosts Open Link Night over at dverse! The Pub is open! Come join us!
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#Haikai Challenge II #10 (3/12/24): Daffodil (Suisen) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
Have you dried off after that melt off, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Eugi 3. Jules4. Suzette Benjamin 5. shaun tenzenmen Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! A few days of spring weather arrives here in the Queen City of the Sound. Blue sky, twittering birds, even more…
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Such Simple Expectations
The day’s rain continues to fall. I play Local Natives’ Cafe Amarilla as I stroll up Larchmont Avenue. Some shoeless children play in a children’s play gym, as their barefoot moms engage with them. The boutiques have already closed. The movie theater remains boarded up. The song ends before I reach Starbucks. But not long…
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Three-Lake Loop
Sunday. A March day in the 50s (F). We forego our Zazen sit to hike an 8-mile loop in Fahnestock State Park. Dormant Maples and Birches greet us as we traverse the opening leg of the first trail. We skirt the edge of the first of multiple marshes we encounter. A winding ascent brings us…
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An Unwise Disturbance
They should’ve let me sleep. They could have. A short slumber is all I asked. A brief respite of time in which to pretend I was human. But no. They awakened me. So now, they pay! whirling limbs the folly of dances with dragons Punam tends Quadrille #196 over at dVerse Poets Pub. There, we…
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#Haikai Challenge II #9 (3/2/24): melt off (yukishiro) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
How was your February 29th, haijin? I hope it was memorable! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ben Tonkin2. Eugi3. Jules 4. Petru5. Suzette Benjamin6. Melissa Lemay 7. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Moving on. The temperature reached 60 degrees F one day last week. Then the next…
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Unrealized Disasters
A pair of headlights reflect off the rain-soaked street. Bird cries sound in the distance. The naked branch-ends of the Cherry Tree next door tremble like the swaying fingers of concert fans. The terrible things that I went through this week never happened. Somewhere in Elmira, New York’s Woodlawn Cemetary, Mark Twain is laughing his…
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Seasonal Incongruity
There’s scarcely any snow left on the ground. Spring-like sun, with a few showers thrown in for good measure, melted away the one-time wonderland brought by two mid-february snowstorms. Not exactly the kind of scene that evokes a Snow Moon. Yet there it is! Small, rising in the morning, and soon to be swallowed by…
Frank J. Tassone 