Tag: poetry
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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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#Tanka Tuesday #2: of Medals and Memories
Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge 68 invites us to write tanka featuring the words medals and memories. Marion Month Miraculous medals shine in the dawn’s first light So many memories of vigils never made UPDATE: also for Real Toads Tuesday Platform!
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/24/17…as Halloween comes…
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge poses the prompts “Eerie” and “Costume.” So appropriate, with Halloween around the corner. See if you can guess which short story inspired this tanka: Eerie moonlit mist guest in a red death costume at the masquerade how many tomorrows will come before the clock’s final gong? UPDATE: for dVerse…
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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
