Tag: tanka
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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!)… …
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#Haikai Challenge #31 (4/28/18): May Medley–(Late (cherry) Blossoms (Osozakura), Star Wars Day (May 4), or Mary (Marian Month) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Photo by kazuend on Unsplash Thank you, haijin, for honoring our earth: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Petru J Viljoen 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Revived Writer 6. Janice (Ontheland) 7. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 8. Merril D. Smith 9. Zander 10. Caitlin 11. Linda Lee Lyberg Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets.…
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A Vernaltide Warning of my Vices and Virtues: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. Do not let me imagine all of…
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Near-Sabbatical Elegy: a #tankaprose
Almost seven years I still hear you telling me, “grass is getting tall!” whether backyard or kitchen you knew how to work your space The family still talks about the prime rib dishes you brought to cousin Lisa’s house Christmas after Christmas. Aquaintences I meet on the street still boast about your old restaurant.…
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Coyote monologues Narcissus: a #TankaProse
Don’t look at me like that! Geesh! The first time you tear your eyes away from that pond in forever, and it’s to give me an attitude? Look, I’m a culture hero. I pulled a Prometheus, and stole fire from the sun for humanity. I practically raised the Crow myself, and I even…
Frank J. Tassone 