Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #136 (4/26/20): late cherry [blossoms*] (osozakura) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enjoy your New Moon stargazing, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Li/Lisa2. Jen Goldie3. Peter4. Eugenia5. Dave Madden6. Revived Writer 7. Astrid8. Pat 9. Kerfe Roig10. Jules11. Merril D. Smith12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 13. Xenia Tran14. Christine Bialczak15. Janice16. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! April…
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Through Darkness into Light: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #TankaProse
They say you have to embrace the darkness to discover the light. They say. What do they know? I could show them darkness. The inky new moon night that encloses me like the walls of the womb. The Mese Verde tunnel, scraping my head and shoulders, through which I crawl like a babe forced through…
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Turnabout: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #tankaprose
“One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche A fruit basket, delivered to a hotel room–covered in lighter fluid. A patronizing condescension during a class introduction: “one of our special people.” The abject fear with which the six-foot-something boy in a man’s body commanded. If only he had understood the old Portugese saying: “Beware the…
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Of Love and Hate: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 mock-translated #Gendai – #Haibun
Can love and Hate occupy the same relationship? Or is a Greek God’s pursuit of a nymph the same lust for power humanity has indulged for millenia? As though Dapne had a choice. As though Apollo allowed her one. qui tamen insequitur pennis adiutus Amoris,ocior est requiemque negat tergoque fugacisinminet et crinem sparsum cervicibus adflat.…
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Our Folly, Desire: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #quadrille – #haibun
We don’t know what we want. We ask, don’t receive. Flush our sleeves with vain tears! We receive, and oh, woe! Unintended consequences, our sorrowful song. “Some quality time at home would be nice…” mispent wish … the gift we can’t keep or give away
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A clean-up Wike: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun
The Long Path trailhead parking lot–filled to capacity. All the lonely people–mostly from New Jersey–have arrived to embrace nature and unleash that howl they’ve pent up all week. In the course of exercising their resolve at this fixture of Harriman State Park, they leave a lot of trash behind. That’s why we’ve come with so…
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Novel-Coronal Hope: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #AmericanSentence #TankaProse
“…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien We do not face the abyss alone, for the…
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#Haikai Challenge #135 (4/18/20): New Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enjoy your Easter Lillies, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Frank J. Tassone2. Dave Madden3. Li/Lisa 4. Jules5. Xenia Tran6. Eugenia 7. Mosshawk8. Peter9. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! We often savor the full moon. Many past #haikai challenges called for poems on various ones throughout the…
Frank J. Tassone 