Tag: haiku
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#Tanka Tuesday 11/7/17…of Autumn leaves and Starlit Nights…
Credit: ESA/Hubble; NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration windblown bracts the gaze of fall starlight on high tide what better lullaby than wind on water? For Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Tuesday Challenge: November 7th prompt: synonyms of Autumn and leaves Jane Dougherty’s a Month with Yeats: Day 7: “These lines are…
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A #Troika #Quadrilla: Hawk-haunted “Rook-Delighting Heaven”
I take on not one, not two, but three challenges at once with a form I’ve never used before! For Carpe Diem’s Weekend Meditation 5, ancient warriors between battle and peace writing haiku © Chèvrefeuille falling to the ground a flower closer to the root bidding farewell © Basho Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats:…
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A not-so #Silent Sunday
And now, a rest from #haiku! I’ll return tomorrow!
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A #Tanka for A Monh with Yeats: Day 5
siren song fleeting pity in her eyes as our hull breaks a blood sunset on the sea that swallow us all For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Five UPDATE: for Poets United Poetry Pantry #378
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#Publication Alert 11/5/17…a #senryu Saturday moment on a Sunday #haiku
Happy to appear in Failed Haiku 23 today! Autumn rain a colleague shouts “really?!” at the fire alarm Thank you, Michael Rehling! Congrats to all haijin!
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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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A #Haibun for Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads–Get Listed: November Edition…#poetry #haiku
Disordered Intent All those desires you deny in the daylight. The gleam of light off the handcuffs hanging from the headboard, the mutual screams in an empty house, the gnarled sheets. But how will you escape them during these lengthening nights? The lure of flesh will have its due. All your resolutions avail you not.…
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A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Four…#poetry
shattered moonlight our clanking steel stained red in celestial blood Danann departing at dawn so much mist in the morning for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Four
Frank J. Tassone 