Tag: poetry
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: The Beauty of Landscape and Artwork for Kiwinana’s #WeeklyTankaPromptChallenge67
Kiwinana asks us to write a tanka that includes the words landscape and art work. Here it goes! Hudson Landscapes artwork of that famous school hangs throughout the world Where are the next great artists painting the beauty of nature?
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#Tanka Tuesday 10/17/17…the beauty of silence and space…
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge calls for inclusion of the words quiet and space, or their synonyms. Here is my Tanka: shattered silence Dave Matthews singing “the space between…” too early, this velvet sky too early, this break of dawn
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Animus: a #MonokuMonday (10/16/2017) water #haibun for #dversepoets #HaibunMonday and #withrealtoads (5/31/18)
Animus A six-person river raft bobbing up and down in the frigid Animus River. A paddle stretched out too far. One rapid, knocking me overboard. beyond white foam so many spruces Break the surface. Still holding the safety line circling the raft. My face, slapped by the river. Again. Again. Back under. Bubbles from…
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#Senryu Saturday 10/14/17…working at home again…
Autumn Saturday the joy of drafting this week’s IEPs (Author’s note: an IEP stands for individual education program, a mandatory document (of at least 10-15 pages) for each student that receives special education services in the US.)
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#Free-style Friday…a #haiku
Christmas truce cigarettes exchanged across No Man’s Land first published in Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration(p. 39), THF, 2017
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A #RhymeRoyal poetic #haibun
Frank Hubeny at dVerse challenges us to write a Chaucerian stanza or Rhyme Royal. This form employs a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, written in (usually) iambic pentameter metric lines (seven) in up to three stanzas. But I write haikai. What to do? Go poetic in the prose-poem, and break haiku rules and rhyme, that’s what!…
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#Throw-down Thursday 10/12/17…my latest #haibun #poetry is up at .@ImageCurve
Renewed Intimacy My fingers, running gently up and down your bare back. Your gentle moan, as I rub away tension in the tightest muscles surrounding your lower lumbar. Our lips meeting in our kiss. Our embrace. parting clouds remembering the first time First published in Image Curve, October 12, 2017 photo by Tim Mossholder on…
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#Way-back Wednesday 10/11/17…when talking…#haiku #haibun #poetry
About that Night What was it about you? Was it the look in your eyes? The way you kept your curly hair like you just rolled out of bed? Or was it simply circumstances? Me, with a girlfriend living outside Philadelphia whom I hadn’t seen since July. You, unattached, sitting on the barstool…
