“Soaring hawk…” a #tanka (1/201/19)
1/20/19: beginning over soaring hawk beginning over after a week of regents a January sun pierces a winter, cloud-covered sky #tanka #micropoetry #poetry Advertisements
#Haikai Challenge #69 (1/19/19): Equality #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
You answered the raven’s call, haijin! Well done! Due to my upper respiratory infection, I did not post a new challenge last week. Some of you kept the raven haikai coming. Congratulations to the last challenge’s participants! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Revived Writer2. lynn__3. Dwight L. Roth4. Suzanne5. […]
Bronx Zoo Visit, 7/16/14
moving dinosaursthe animatronics thatbring battles to lifehis smile when T-Rexdowns triceratops The tiger lies on his side, eyes closed. Another one—the next enclosure over—at least lifts his head. As indifferently as the gorillas at the Congo Rain Forest: eating, gazing empty-eyed toward us, scratching buttocks before climbing trees. […]
“cold twilight…” a #tanka (1/16/19)
1/16/19: beyond measure cold twilightanother day of fatigue beyond measureand still I wait beforethe relief of homecoming #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
“after sunset…” a #tanka (1/11/19)
1/11/19: January after sunset on a January day the echoes at home are louder than usual since you are not yet here #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
