Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #48 (8/26/18): Causes #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Seen the shorter nights? Savored some of the cooler days? Well, haijin, many of you experienced the first fruits of the coming autumn. Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules @ Strands 4. Reena Saxena 5. Pat R 6. Deborah…
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Brotherly Memories: A #Tanka
8/24/18: (memories of a) sibling The Crest Pool club my brother’s bobbing head in the deep end a robin’s sudden flight from it’s discovered nest #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Autumnal Signs: a #HaikaiChallenge #tanka
late summer evening the sudden chill from an Autumnal cold Only moments ago Summer vacation begain for my latest #Haikai Challenge #47 (8/18/18): autumn near (aki chikashi)
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Acedia Mood: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse
hidden sun silence from the cicadas this Autumnal day A thirst for more than water beside a vessel more than full Still, the weight. An unseen sorrow, an ennui. Too many days in this den? Too much stifling heat or suffocating humidity? Or is it the ambitious expectations too high to meet: a new journal…
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“gray sky…” a #tanka
8/20/18: mystery gray sky grasshopper songs as a jet descends why we hurt each other a heartbreaking mystery #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge #47 (8/18/18): autumn near (aki chikashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
You endured the fire and bore witness, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Pat R 3. Reena Saxena 4. Jules @ Strands 5. deepa 6. Revived Writer 7. Janice 8. Deborah Gomez 9. Jules @ Strands #2 10. Frank J. Tassone 11. Linda Lee…
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An unreceived Present
still pond agape in every moment … when will we quiet the chorus in our heads? How can it be? How can Love be present, and waiting only for the asking? How can the Presence be such a gratuitous gift? Impossible! And yet, I have tasted the gift, and seen without seeing. I can still…
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#Haikai Challenge #46 (8/11/18): Fire #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Flames from the Holy Fire scorch a hillside in Lake Elsinore, California, on August 9.ROBYN BECK / AFP / GETTY My, did you have a lot to say about vacations last week, haijin! Congratulations to all contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Denise DeVries 2. Deborah Gomez 3. Jules @ Strands 4.…
Frank J. Tassone 