Tag: haibun
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Playing Favorites: a #TankaProse
How can I choose a favorite? Would it be the one where my pivot line hit the sweet spot? Would it be the part of my first published tanka-prose? Or the first published tanka, ever? Or is it the one in which I most clearly discern that small, still voice? Althoughthe wind and waterinspirethere comes…
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Fatigue
The sandpaper-rubbed-raw sensation across my arms. The ache in the left knee and right rotor-cuff. The weariness in muscles that runs deep to the bones. The sighing whistfulness of seeing only two sets of Christmas lights still on, when one of them is mine. The conviction of caving to the craving that covers what I…
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#Haikai Challenge #172 (1/3/21): first sun (hatsuhi)/ #173: (1/10/21) Democracy #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
I trust you enjoyed your moon-gazing, haijin? Congratulations to the prior challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Janice2. Linda Lee Lyberg 3. Jane Dougherty4. Eugenia5. Kerfe Roig 6. Colleen Chesebro7. Revived Writer8. Frank J. Tassone9. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA10. Goutam Dutta 11. s.s.12. Jules13. Xenia Tran14. Kate15. Xenia Tran (2) Powered by… Mister…
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2020 Blogging Year in Review
We survived a traumatic year. And not all of us made it. Nevertheless, and even despite an Autumn of writer’s block, I managed to edge last year’s total views. The #Haikai Challenge remains popular, even with a ten-week gap! That is all because of you. Thank you for your continued support! Thank you for saying…
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Yielding Light: a tiny #tankaprose
At last: Christmas lights, under a Cold Moon. all the ways we disappoint ourselves swept aside by that sustaining Love, that irresistable force for my own #Haikai Challenge!
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#Haikai Challenge #171 (12/29/20): Cold Moon (fuyu no tsuki)/New Year’s Eve (toshi no yo)/ New Year’s Day (ganjitsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Thank you for your warm welcome-back, haijin! The intrepid among you ran the gauntlet of ten kigo! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Jane Dougherty3. Jules (two haibun)4. Kerfe Roig 5. Jules (two more haibun, 10 haiku)6. s.s.7. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA8. s.s. 9. Colleen Chesebro10. Kate11. s.s. Powered…
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Incarnations: a #Haikai Challenge collection (10/17-12/19: #161-#170) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
A long overdue congratulations to the contributors of most recent #Haikai Challenge: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Eugenia2. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA3. Roger4. Peter5. Janice6. s.s.7. Jules 8. Christine Bolton, Poetry for Healing9. Xenia Tran10. Myforever.blog11. Pat R12. Goutam Dutta13. Jane Dougherty14. Tina Stewart Brakebill 15. willowdot2116. Colleen Chesebro17. Revived Writer18. Tessa Dean19. Linda…
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Solstitial Circadian Rythms: a #haibun
The sun set at 4:31. Our drive home from the urgent care center held none of the cares such a ride would suggest. My son needed a required COVID test to satisfy the State’s requirement for his safe participation in school. Whenever it reopens after the holiday. Now, the deep of the longest night settles…
Frank J. Tassone 