Tag: tanka
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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…
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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…
Frank J. Tassone 