Tag: tanka
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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
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#Haikai Challenge #49 (9/1/18): Labor Day/Coming of Autumn (risshuu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
By A Staff Illustrator (Frank Leslie’s Weekly Illustrated Newspaper) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons It’s not easy to step up for a cause, haijin. But the brave among you did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Revived Writer 2. Jules @ Strands 3. Deborah Gomez 4. Ken Gierke /…
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“Sweltering Heat…”: A #tanka (8/29/18)
sweltering heat the doctor-ordered tai chi still undone the lure of a verdant lawn I continue to ignore
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Human Foibles: A #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #tankaprose #2
Bad news kicks his shoes off on a supersonic flight. He sips champagne in business class and laughs his ass off. “They still don’t get it,” he mutters aloud to no one, “Practice makes progress, but the wankers won’t even raise their arses to fart!” Meanwhile, the smoke spews more carbon into the…
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“…for Sister Earth, our Mother…” : a #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #quadrille #writephoto #tankaprose
She clasps the afternoon sunlight in her raised arms. Then asks, “If you will not care for the earth, who will?” One deep breath: the journey begins. Dryad dream a shift in mind to resist the exploitation see the desolation and say, “no more!” for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #63 – Feel…
Frank J. Tassone 