Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #52 (9/22/18): harvest #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
How was the stargazing, haijin? Many of you savored the stars! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. The Dark Netizen 4. Jules @ Strands 5. Revived Writer 6. Jules @ Strands #2 7. lynn__ 8. Helene Vaillant 9. Deepa 10.…
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Tai Chi Logos: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (9/18/18)
sunrise the potency, the power of the tree of life listening to the word everlasting One more sunrise. One more bright ray to shatter the predawn darkness. One more ascent breaching the horizon. One more. One more sunset. One last ray before the coming twilight. One descent like a bowing courtier before…
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“Hurricane remnants…” a #tanka
9/18/18: pastel hurricane remnants bleed a pastel colored sky to gun-steel gray the growing aches and pains of these arthritic joints
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#Haikai Challenge #51 (9/15/18): Milky Way (amanogawa) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Did you enjoy the spring/Autumn Wind, haijin? I hope you’re enjoying a sweet year! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Jules @ Strands 3. Merril D. Smith 4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. H�l�ne Vaillant 6. Pat R 7. Deborah Gomez 8. Suzanne 9. Revived…
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#Haikai Challenge #50 (9/8/18): Autumn wind (aki kaze)/ Spring wind (haru kaze)/ Rosh Hashanah #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend, haijin! Many of you celebrated the day, or the turning toward Autumn! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules @ Strands 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Reena Saxena 4. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 5. Pat R 6. Revived Writer 7. Deepa 8. Deborah…
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“Stormy sky…” a #tanka (9/7/18)
9/7/18: wild graces stormy sky all of these wild graces we depend upon the balloons that we’ll release for our friend we’ll see no more #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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A Moment of Charity: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 9/5/18 #TankaProse
Photo by Nathaniel Tetteh on Unsplash skyscraper sunset the outstretched reaching hands left empty Why despise charity when it’s the greatest remaining? I walked out of the grocers and into the dark. An indigent woman that mumbled incomprehensibly sat just within light of the store. Overcome by an inexplicable urge, I gave the woman a…
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“summer’s close…”: a #tanka (9/3/18) #LaborDay
Summer’s close cicadas still singing in this heat by this time tomorrow we’ll swelter in staff meetings
Frank J. Tassone 