Tag: haikai challenge
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An announcement concerning the #HaikaiChallenge
I plan to roll out the next #HaikaiChallenge tomorrow. Be ready! Autumn night Paying a busy day’s Exhausting toll
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#Haikai Challenge #7 (11/11/17): Veterans…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Thank you to last week’s participants: Jilly–Trinity Charley–Haiku–Souls in Flight qbit–haiku–River Nihil revivedwriter–remember, remember On to today’s. It’s Veteran’s day in the United States. It’s also my birthday. Late this morning, my son and I brave the below-30-degrees-Farenheight cold to attend our neighboring village’s Veterans commemoration. Now, I’m typing this challenge–a privilege I could…
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
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#Haikai Challenge #5 (10/28/17/): Halloween #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Thank you, Poets, for your participation in last week’s #Haikai Challenge 4: Darkness: Jilly- What Dark May Come Charley- Troiku – Fish Crow Vivian- Cloak of Darkness qbit- Three Haiku – Darkness revivedwriter- You Make the Darkness Light And now, the moment you all have been waiting for–this week’s #Haikai Challenge! It’s the last weekend…
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#Haikai Challenge 4 (10/21/17): darkness #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit (twice!), RevivedWriter (also twice!), and Jilly for participating in last week’s challenge. On to this week’s! It’s late October. The days shorten. So what better kigo (seasonal reference) could there be than darkness? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a haikai poem that uses, or alludes to,…
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#Hakai Challenge #3: Foliage #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit, Xenia and revivedwriter for participating in last week’s challenge! On to this week’s challenge! It’s mid-October. Halfway to Halloween. The leaves have begun their kaleidoscope of color. This week, write a haikai poem about fall foliage. You can reference the image or use the word “foliage” in your poem. Here’s how the…
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#Haikai Challenge #2: Harvest Moon #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit. He entered the inaugural challenge last Sunday! And now, for this week’s challenge: We who live within the longitude of the East Coast of the US recently saw a harvest moon. Your prompt this week is to write a haikai that includes Harvest Moon. It could be those words, that image, or…
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“Oktoberfest…” a #haiku for #Haikai Challenge 1
Oktoberfest the hoppy head atop the first full stein
Frank J. Tassone 