Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #182-185 (3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3): Transformation #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga #nationalpoetrymonth
Hope you enjoyed celebrating our (sort of) Spring. Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ruth Partridge2. Ruth Partridge3. Ruth Partridge4. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA 5. Dave Madden6. Eugenia7. nrk8. lynn__ 9. Jules10. Goutam Dutta11. Colleen Chesebro12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Mad March…
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Inaugural Easter Awe: a #haibun (4/4/21)— Day 4 of #NationalPoetryMonth
Do you dare make sense of it? The trembled voices of terrified women cry out the impossible. Everybody knows dead is dead; no one returns. It is a fact as immutable as the blue sky above and the ground below! But what do you make of an empty tomb? A stone rolled into place by…
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“Failure to Communicate” a #tankaprose (4/3/21) Day 3 #nationalpoetrymonth
What are you trying to tell me, you aches and pains? What message is so important? Your throbbing and sandpaper-grating sensations on my joints stiffen me to immobility. Your grating of my nerves has my undivided attention. Say what you need to say. Because the road beckons. The trail whispers on a spring breeze. Sunlight…
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The Ressurection will not be Televised: a #gembun #sequence (4/2/21): Day 2 #nationalpoetrymonth
If not for one refused homage… I have not the strength left to say another word, so the crowd shouts plenty against me. CONDEMNED the grip of guilt on the throat How crushing is this weight? BEARING THE CROSS count the number of steps before The dirt of the street mixes with the blood of…
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Perilous Introductions: A deranged #haibun #nationalpoetrymonth
falling stars all we inherit is the wind Do you imagine that you know me? Oh, you do, you do. Heard all of my stories? You’ve heard enough, I’m sure. Just another trickster, right? Stealing the sun from the Great Spirit? Tricking a white man out of his clothes? Gambling his wife away to his…
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Vernal Ephemera: a #haibun
A year plus since the lockdown, and another Spring teases seasonal change. While the sun radiates the neighborhood, uneclipsed by a single cloud, a chilly breeze blows. The daffodils broke hibernation, with the forsythias following close behind. Nevertheless, a familiar, invernal chill lingers. Tomorrow promises showers; my aching joints confirm. And new COVID cases surge…
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Enlightened: a #WorldPoetryDay2021#gembun
With a single ripple, the pond shimmered, the midday sun a wavy glow all across it. Island pond the miles of hiking that follow #haibun #haiku #gembun #poetry #photo #worldpoetryday2021
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Balance of Seasons: a #TankaProse
clear sky she casts weed killer on the lawn Pale-green grass–cut by the silhouettes of naked maples–bathes in early afternoon sunlight. A few still-winter-clad walkers stride beside the front yard. I witness it through our home office window, my pale face reflecting LED light from an Acer laptop screen. Are you proud of me, Billy…
Frank J. Tassone 