Tag: senryu
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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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#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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#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,…
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#Free-style Friday 10/20/17…when goes wrong and right…#senryu #haiku #poetry
rain patter the haibun I didn’t type the haiku I wrote promises we never keep summer wind first published in Failed Haiku 21, September 2017
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#Hakai Challenge #3: Foliage #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit, Xenia and revivedwriter for participating in last week’s challenge! On to this week’s challenge! It’s mid-October. Halfway to Halloween. The leaves have begun their kaleidoscope of color. This week, write a haikai poem about fall foliage. You can reference the image or use the word “foliage” in your poem. Here’s how the…
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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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#Senryu Saturday…Ah, Marital blisss…
A Burger King Conversation “I used to stop in New Paltz after class for these chicken sandwiches.” “No wonder you were so fat!” Thruway rest stop after seventeen years still newlyweds
Frank J. Tassone 