Tag: Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
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#Free-style Friday (1/5/18): The Price #tankaprose #senryu
All the “master of indoor sports had to do was pay his share of the Electric bill. That’s all he had to do. But he had a Grateful Dead concert to see. The bill had to wait. What a catastrophe for him, then, when he came home to find his tickets missing, and a…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/2/18): Ordinary Grace–a #tankaprose #haibun…#poetry #haiku
Photo by Olesia Misty on Unsplash An alchemic drive to transform this fallen world into paradise how many moments of Grace missed in the ordinary? We almost don’t recognize each other. Her near-pixie cut hair and blue lipstick, and my ever-growing beard, conspire to conceal us. A moment later, we exchange our…
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#VisionQuest: a #NewYears Manifesto #haibun #haiku #poetry
Over at Real Toads, Bjorn calls on us to write a manifesto for 2018. I’m one for goals, not New Year’s resolutions. But when I reflected on this post, I realize there is one vision I can achieve, and 2018’s as good a year as any to do so. I have practiced centering prayer for…
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#Tanka Tuesday (December 26, 2017)…O Holy Night: A #tankaprose for Colleen+Kiwinana’s challenges #haiku #poetry #Christmas
(courtesy of two-chums) Cold, starry night those shepherds’ reality pierced by novel light among the singing stars they find a manger-laden babe A veil of all-to-human darkness fallen upon the world. Client-kings cater to the lock-step of Legionnaires bearing the word of Caesar. How could such a new star shine for the…
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A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 11/29/17 special…On Winter Mornings and Abundant Wanderings…#haiku #poetry
By ILMRT (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Winter mornings abundance of hot coffee before wandering congested highways of these inevitable commutes For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 73–Winter and Mornings and Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge and Poets United Midweek Motif–bittersweet and Real Toads Tuesday Platform
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A Special #ThrowbackThursday 11/23/17 #haibun on comfort…#haiku #poetry #imaginarygardenswithrealtoads
Cup of Tea, Cup of Coffee Eighteen years earlier across the pond, a cup of hot Earl Grey tea. Hot bitter-sweetness spreads out from the first sip. Daylight fills the living room through cream curtains. The hum of morning traffic arises from a busy Wigmore Street. Today, at home, a cup of hot Columbian coffee.…
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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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#Throwdown Thursday 11/8/17…my latest is up: Meltdown – #Haibun #poetry .@ImageCurve
Meltdown I’m administering a Level I Vocational Assessment to Ana, when Julian bursts into the room, He throws something that misses Myru and hits the metal cabinet housing our class’ books and folders. He drops into a worn desk. His fists repeatedly pound the surface, before opening and clasping the back of his…
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