Tag: haiku

  • “budding maples…” a #tanka (5/2/19)

    5/2/19: alone budding maples alone across the yard a coyote I watch it come and go from inside an empty house #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/2/19)

    5/2/19: audio book crabapple blossoms — the library renews her audio book #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 Wrap-up

    Another National Poetry Month ends. Another 30-in-30 completed. What a ride! I achieved the following during this past #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019: 30 haiku posted 30 haikai poems (haiku, tanka, tanka-prose, haibun, renga) posted 4,537 views 2,117 visitors 1,617 likes 330 comments Special thanks to Maureen Thorson as NaPoWriMo.net and Robert Lee Brewer at WD Poetics…

  • Publication Announcement (5/1/19): My #tanka in Poets Salon!

    Happy that my Tanka appears in Colorado Boulevard ‘s Poets Salon: a lullaby of Ireland’s creation Mom would sing to me a soft rustle of oak leaves from a whisper of wind Thank you, Kath Abela Wilson!

  • My Daily #Haiku (5/1/19)

    5/1/19: collection Beltane another #NaPoWriMo collection #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #NPM Finale: a #tanka

    April 30th the thirtieth poem of #NaPoWriMo Don’t stop writing poetry when the calendar reads “May” #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 30/30 WD April PAD 2019 30/30

  • My Daily #Haiku (4/30/19)

    4/30/19: North last April rain my conscience points to true North #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2019 / #GloPoWriMo2019 30/30

  • Of Stormriding and Picnicking (Again)

    The aches throb. Even the sensations of fatigue have tired. The sleepless night, the challenging day facing students that had a week off, the planning of a poetry jam: They were the breakers. I was the eroding shore. But the Irish song is right: I “weathered the storm” and came “out smiling in the end.”…