Tag: haiku
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#Haikai Challenge #13 (12/23/17): Christmas #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Welcome back, haijin! Pat yourselves on the back for the marvelous job you did last week! For those of you here for the first time, behold: 1. Charley (Life in Portofino) 2. Jules 3. Zander 4. ToniKanzen 5. Pat R 6. Merril D. Smith 7. qbit 8. Xenia Tran 9. Janice (Ontheland) 10. Jane Dougherty…
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#Free-style Friday (12/22/17)…The Dark Side of Silence, encore…#haibun #poetry #haiku #Christmas
Silent Night, Silent Day Something in the way she drives. Her left hand, turned up, turned down, on and off the steering wheel. Her steely eyes, centered on the road. The 40 MPH sprints on the side streets. The utter silence. I shrink in my seat. Pity my brother, who bears this cold onslaught of…
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Thank you
I have over 100 followers as of today. Thank you for sharing this journey with me! Thank you for declaring that haikai matters! light arising in darkness our footsteps
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#Throwdown Thursday (12/21/17): my latest #haibun #poetry is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku
A Cook Against the Storm I turn on the barbeque just as a horizon-filling bank of rainclouds roll in. A sudden wind arrives. The songbirds’ ensemble speeds with urgency. I race this oncoming storm. The stakes? Our sardine dinner. rustling leaves after the rain a shimmering grill first published in Image Curve, December 21,…
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#Wayback Wednesday: Christmas bygones…#haibun #haiku #poetry
A Violent End Tension seizes my brother’s face. Tremors follow the stiffening of every muscle. His eyes widen in anger and terror. He yells and storms upstairs. I follow. We grapple in the guest bedroom, where he’d left his coat. He can’t move me; my root is too deep. I embrace him. He struggles. I…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: A #Tanka for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 76 – Christmas & Joy
Kiwinana asks us to use Christmas and Joy in a tanka… Christmas Eve the joy in the children’s eyes as they unwrap gifts aroma of octopus lingering in the air
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#Tanka Tuesday #1: A #Tanka for Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge #63…cover and precipitation (#synonymsonly)
Colleen asks us to use synonyms of cover and precipitation for this week’s #poetry challenge… snowfall we throw off our comforter in sudden heat Oh, if only we could spend the day nestled in our bed!
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#Monoku Monday 12/18/17 #haiku #poetry
waning Autumn another drive in darkness at five
