Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #34 (5/19/18): Passing Spring (yuku haru) … #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Staying Dry, haijin? I hope so! Honestly, I had no idea how prescient my kigo of last week would be! No matter the precipitation, however, you came through! Congratulations, contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Xenia Tran 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Reena Saxena 5. Victoria Slotto 6. Dwight…
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Steller Joy: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #tankaprose (5/16/18)
“Mary, full of grace,” so did the angel proclaim But what victory did you contemplate gazing upon the milky way? Is there a moment more sublime? Lao Tzu counseled those troubled at heart, whom thought the universe agitated, to look out at the stars. I followed his advice many nights. Too often, I strained…
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Second Anniversary: A #SenryuSaturday #TankaProse
December 24, 2011 Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Liz call me. They thought about me today. I knew the anniversary was coming, but I forgot it was actually today. I had memorialized my father’s anniversary in haibun. The ones I’d written for Mom remain in my handwritten journals, which I’ve yet to type up and…
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#Haikai Challenge #33 (5/12/18): Spring Rain (harusame)/Autumn Rain (aki no ame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hello, haijin! You took time to hear the birds twitter! Congratulations to all contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Linda Lee Lyberg 6. Zander 7. Xenia Tran 8. Jules #2 9. Revived Writer 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11. Caitlin 12. Revived…
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An Art of Unlearning: A #TankaTuesday (5/8/18) #TankaProse
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash a starlit sky residing in fantasy at my peril I let go of my cravings to embrace this passing wind I learn to unlearn each day. Unlearn the paralyzing fear of others’ judgement. Unlearn the urge to rail against every inconvenience I encounter. Unlearn the way I bend under the…
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#Haikai Challenge #32 (5/5/18): twittering (saezuri,) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Photo by Ryk Naves on Unsplash Happy Cinco De Mayo, haijin! And congratulations to those of you that completed thirty poems in thirty days for April! We entered May with a flurry of prompts, and you offered a diversity of responses. Our hat’s off to this week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty 2.…
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#Tanka Tuesday (for a #WaybackWednesday) 5/2/18: Witness a Wild Thing
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Wild has always called me. Out of the depths of a child’s imagination came marching a parade of derivative characters. Then the moments of rapt attention: a tricyle turned upside down: I turned over my rusty red tricycle in the mud room. Then I spun the wheels.…
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Vive La Geekdom!
The Friday night audience at the Lafayette filled the one-screen, National Historic Landmark theater nearly to capacity! We cheered when the curtain opened. We applauded when our favorite Avengers arrived on-screen. We laughed at every gagline, gasped at every surprise, and cried in shock and disbelief as some of our favorites… (sniff! sniff!)… …
Frank J. Tassone 