Tag: haiku
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#Publication Alert 11/23/17 #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy to appear in Product Poet’s latest paper! https://paper.li/ProductPoet/1361288961#/ Click “#haiku,” then “all haiku.” It’s the post that begins “#Wayback Wednesday 11/22/17…”
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-Two
‘I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake Where wind cries in the sedge:’ —W.B. Yeats Peter Smyly [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons windswept lake daylight the only witness to our moans and sighs her passion-spent hand caresses my battle-scarred, tear-stained cheek for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day…
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#WaybackWednesday 11/22/2017 … on restless reflections #haibun #haiku #poetry
Author’s Note: my cousin dies in a motorcycle accident some years ago. This haibun reflects the events of the day after his funeral. Restless Day After A Nickelodeon version of Cinderella plays in the family room. Bella, our neighbor’s golden retriever, barks at a passing dog and walker. The pine-scented aroma from our…
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Transforming Encounters: a #haibun through other eyes #haiku #poetry
A roar. My rear legs step back. But I’m half out of the brush. Curious. What approaches? A man. Seated on what makes the thunder. An “ATV,” I’ve heard humans say. Our eyes meet. I half-step back. He stares, but he comes no closer. I almost smile. Can he possibly know how…
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A #Thanksgiving remembered #haibun #haiku #poetry
Thanksgiving Weekend 2012 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…
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#Tanka Tuesday 11/21/17…of Stags, Gratitude, and the Challenge of family #haiku #poetry
‘…by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh’ —W.B. Yeats November morning A grown stag, his doe, their fawns graze near the water my gratitude for the challenge of raising my family for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-one, Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry challenge–Thanks and Family and…
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Monoku Monday 11/20/17…#haiku #poetry
Autumn chill too much fatigue for this haiku
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Our Standing Ground… a #haibun #quadrille for .@dVersePoets
Where is our root? On shifting fashions, like that house built on sand, awaiting the tumolt and inevitable ruin? Or on authentic sense, that citadel founded on rock, indifferent to buffeting winds and punishing waters? autumn rain a swollen brook eroding a well-worn rock Mish hosts dVerse Poets Pub’s Quadrille…
