Tag: haibun
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#Haiku Happenings #7: “Between Breaths” by Michelle Beauchamp
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Just an Ordinary Walk
Mira’s legacy is ready. Jack’s Auto is only a 15 minute walk up Palmer Avenue. It’s cold, but not freezing. I put on my black suade, new wool hat, and gloves. Step after step up the sidewalk, the cold finding gaps through which to seep. Thic h Nhat Hanh’s “The Miracle of Mindfulness” plays through…
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#Haiku Happenings #6: “Haibun in memory of an artist mother” by Jane Dougherty
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#Haiku Happenings #2: “Haibun Monday 1-29-24: Breath” by yours truly over at dVerse Poets Pub
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#Haikai Challenge II #4 (1/27/24): withering wind (kogarashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust that some of you enjoyed your moon gazing, haijin. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Ben Tonkin3. Peter 4. AJ (Ange)5. Suzette Benjamin6. Melissa Lemay 7. Lesley Scoble8. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! It’s still winter in the northern hemisphere. Two weeks ago, a…
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Rainclipse Musings
Somewhere above the nighttime rainclouds shines the wolf moon. Sight unseen, and still it stirs the blood. Sight seen somewhere beyond the clouds, perhaps, a wolf atop a ridge in the wilds may throw up its head and howl. Maybe packmates answer, or else this wolf cries out alone and remains unanswered. The patter of…
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Wild Zazen
Tonight’s sit was another dragon ride. A maelstrom of thoughts whirled throughout the mind. I returned again and again to the breath, rooting the awareness down in the hara. But even through such cognitive dervish-whirling, a pinch of clarity arose. through the clouds… moon De Jackson hosts dverse poets’ Quadrille #193: Poems in a Pinch.…
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#Haikai Challenge II #3 (1/20/24): Wolf Moon (Urufumūn) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga
You let your light shine last week, haijin! Congratulations to all contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Ben Tonkin3. Melissa Lemay 4. AJ (Ange)5. Selma6. Kerfe 7. Suzette Benjamin8. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! It’s time for our first Full Moon prompt of the #Haikai Challenge revival. According to the…
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