Tag: haiku
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#Free-style Friday 10/27/17
Empty road a view of peak foliage no one sees For Toads’ Artistic Interpretations with Margaret
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#Throw-down Thursday #2: an #ErasurePoem for #dVerse Poets Pub…#haiku
Victoria over at dVerse invites us to find poetry through the erasure of lines from a larger text. I go big with this excerpt from Basho: The glory of three generations of Fujiwara vanished in the space of a dream; the remains of the Great Gate stood two miles in the distance. Hidehira’s headquarters had…
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#Way-back Wednesday 10/25/17…The Journey Begins…#haibun
The Journey Begins “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the single step,” said Lao Tzu. But he’s dead. This journey ahead frightens me to my core. Twisting crags, breakneck switchbacks and a legion of thorns and brambles lay on the path. I shudder at every letter as a riot of voices shout down…
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#monoku Monday #2: Creak…a dVerse Poets Pub #Quadrille #Monday #haibun special
Creak stairs under footsteps floorboards of the worn front deck the opening front door our screams at the pale face dripping blood from red-stained fangs coming through the door The accented “good evening” before he fills my pumpkin case creak feet scampering into the night For dVerse…
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#Monoku Monday 10/23/17 #haiku #poetry
meditation the crunching of wood before dawn
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#Senryu Saturday 10/21/17…when it rains…
Autumn rain a colleague shouts “really?!” at the fire alarm from my twitter feed: #haikuchallenge (really) #haiku #micropoety #senryu #poetry 12:22 PM – 9 Oct 2017
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A #Haiku for Carpe Diem #1284…
dry earth falls through these wrinkled fists Autumn for Chèvrefeuille’s Carpe Diem #1284
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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,…
Frank J. Tassone 