Tag: senryu
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#Publication Alert 11/5/17…a #senryu Saturday moment on a Sunday #haiku
Happy to appear in Failed Haiku 23 today! Autumn rain a colleague shouts “really?!” at the fire alarm Thank you, Michael Rehling! Congrats to all haijin!
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
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#Haikai Challenge #5 (10/28/17/): Halloween #haiku #haibun #senryu #tanka
Thank you, Poets, for your participation in last week’s #Haikai Challenge 4: Darkness: Jilly- What Dark May Come Charley- Troiku – Fish Crow Vivian- Cloak of Darkness qbit- Three Haiku – Darkness revivedwriter- You Make the Darkness Light And now, the moment you all have been waiting for–this week’s #Haikai Challenge! It’s the last weekend…
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#Senryu Saturday 10/28/17
October morning the superb timing of a failing furnace #haikuchallenge (superb)#haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry #joysofhomeownership From my twitter feed, 10/28/17
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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,…
