Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #63 (12/2/18) Advent and/or Hanukkah #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hope you enjoyed your moon gazing, haijin. Many of you did. Congratulations, last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Toni Spencer23. Jane Dougherty4. Jules @ Strands5. Janice 6. Tina Stewart Brakebill7. Violet Lentz8. lynn9. The Dark Netizen10. Xenia Tran 11. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr12. Revived Writer13. Helene Vaillant Powered…
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November 11, 2012: a #TBT .@ImageCurve #Haibun
We make it to the Veteran’s Day concert at West Point. The storied USMA band plays melodies dating back to “Chester”, the most popular drum and piper tune during the Revolutionary War. The music charms, the slideshow entertains, but where are the Jazz Knights? Then I hear Big Band music from the World War II…
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Phoenix Song: a #TankaTuesday (11/27/18) #TankaProse
Long past time to put this chill in the past gather the pyre ignite the consuming blaze that restores the life taken The first crackles of flame yield a tendril of smoke. The fire grows, feasting on the dry kindling and tinder wound through dry wood. It won’t take long. I hear…
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Awaiting the Doctor: An .@ImageCurve #haibun
Conversations carry on outside the grain-laminate door. Papers rustle. A phone rings with a staccato four-beat tone in the key of “E”. Lights hum. I sit in the last examination room on the left. A middle-aged Filipina in sky-blue scrubs measures my blood pressure. Her eyes widen. “Let me take it on your…
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Brookside Pedagogy: A #writephoto #haibun
“Do you not see?” the nymph asks. Her mischevious smile implies that the answer should be obvious. But no sensible response comes to mind. “Whatever the path, the way through is always one step at a time, placed in the right place at the right time.” She finishes her pronouncement with her hands…
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#Haikai Challenge #62 (11/24/18): winter moon (fuyu no tsuki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Happy Belated Thanksgiving! For those that celebrated, I hope you enjoyed your day of feasting! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Reena Saxena 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Helene Vaillant 5. Deepa 6. Jules @ Strands 7. D L Starlight 8. The Dark Netizen 9. Janice 10.…
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Thanksgiving 2013: An Excerpt from Autumnal Trilogy: 3 Haibun – an .@ImageCurve #Haibun
Thanksgiving, 2013 The first crisis: the VCR won’t record the Macy’s Day Parade. All repair attempts fail. Mom and I brace for Robert’s outburst of anger and disappointment. It never comes. a sunlit lawn parade balloons overshadow Sixth Avenue Robert helps me bring up tables during commercials. Frankie is supposed to act as a “scout”…
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Thanksgiving Weekend 2012: an .@ImageCurve #haibun
Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd Another wave of sickness strikes. I’m on my knees over the master bath toilet. Orange-and-brown bile fills water and stains the porcelain rim, along with the painted walls and freshly-washed tile. Blackness. A slow awakening, questions. How did I get here? Why did I wake up in Dad’s bed? All I…
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