Tag: tanka
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#Tanka Tuesday 12/12/17…This Christmas Spirit…#haiku #poetry
“Silver Bells” unraveled music lesson from so long ago so many winters later a light shining in the dark for Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge #62: Bells & Past and Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 75 – Shining & Winter
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#Haikai Challenge #11 (12/9/17): first snow OR ever green #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renku
Another successful challenge in the books! Congratulations to last week’s participating haijin: Jilly: Thirsting and SuperMoon! Charley: Haiku–Full Frost Moon Zander: Arid Haiku Linda: #Haiku: Sacred qbit: Haiku- Arid Petrujviljoen: Arid revivedwriter: Desert Ultreya! It’s snowing in southeast New York. We’re expected to get between three to eight inches, or one to three, depending on which gambler–er, meteorologist–you listen to. My…
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#Tanka Tuesday (12/5/17)…a feast of sight and sound for bare and ensnaring landscapes #haiku #poetry
rising super moon the bare maples my eyes see ensnared in shadows the hum of nighttime traffic reaches my long-chilled ears for kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 74 – Eyes & Ears and Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 61 – “STARK & TRAP”
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#Haikai Challenge 10 (12/3/17): Arid…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Hello, haijin! And my hat’s off to you! For I haikai challenged, and you delivered! Last week, a record number of you answered the call: Jilly–Ain’t Gonna Happen–a Haiku Charley–Haiku: Migration Charmed Chaos–#Haiku: Rain revivedwriter–November Rain qbit–Haiku–November Rain Vivian Zems–November Rain Xenia Trans–Where Frogs Are Sleeping Zander–In The City Rick Daddario–2017 Haiga Header Sampling…
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#haikai challenge update…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Expect the next #haikai challenge tomorrow! super moon delays from preparing a new family room
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A #Tanka-Prose #haibun for A Month with Yeats: Day 30
Thank you, Jane, for your guidance on this wonderful, November journey. And now, for the thirtieth… via Pinterest.com “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,” —W.B. Yeats Bloodsword Sunset The first chill is in the air. The last withered leaves scatter in a passing Autumn…
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-nine
ingawh [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons ‘Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?’—W.B. Yeats Blood sunset our mad general pursues her across this land so we bleed so far from home for these empty vanities for Jane Dougherty’s A…
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A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 11/29/17 special…On Winter Mornings and Abundant Wanderings…#haiku #poetry
By ILMRT (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Winter mornings abundance of hot coffee before wandering congested highways of these inevitable commutes For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 73–Winter and Mornings and Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge and Poets United Midweek Motif–bittersweet and Real Toads Tuesday Platform
