Tag: tanka
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/9/18): Low Winter Sun …an Ekphrastic #tankaprose…#haiku #poetry #photo
“low winter sun” by Sharnon Knight “low winter sun” a pathfinder’s way ends at home fresh snow and bare trees a welcome sight We swore we passed the same farmhouse. Weather-worn, with a silo near the barn, and perhaps a shed set back in the same, full field. Each one lay along a state road…
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#Haikai Challenge #15 (1/6/18): Winter Storm or Artic cold #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #renga #haiga
Welcome to 2018! A shout-out all of you that participated in last week’s challenge: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Zander 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Xenia Tran 5. Janice (Ontheland) 6. Jules 7. Alice Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. And now, for the first Haikai challenge of the year: This week,…
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#Free-style Friday (1/5/18): The Price #tankaprose #senryu
All the “master of indoor sports had to do was pay his share of the Electric bill. That’s all he had to do. But he had a Grateful Dead concert to see. The bill had to wait. What a catastrophe for him, then, when he came home to find his tickets missing, and a…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/2/18): Ordinary Grace–a #tankaprose #haibun…#poetry #haiku
Photo by Olesia Misty on Unsplash An alchemic drive to transform this fallen world into paradise how many moments of Grace missed in the ordinary? We almost don’t recognize each other. Her near-pixie cut hair and blue lipstick, and my ever-growing beard, conspire to conceal us. A moment later, we exchange our…
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#Haikai Challenge #14 (12/30/17): New Year #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #renga #haiga
unsplash-logoNordWood Themes Oh, you festive Haijin! Behold, your celebratory posts from last week’s challenge: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Zander 2. ToniKanzen correct link 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Ken Gierke/rivrvlogr 5. ToniKanzen 6. Charley (Life in Portofino) 7. Jules 8. Linda Lee Lyberg 9. Merril D. Smith 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11. qbit 12. Revived Writer Powered…
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#Tanka Tuesday (December 26, 2017)…O Holy Night: A #tankaprose for Colleen+Kiwinana’s challenges #haiku #poetry #Christmas
(courtesy of two-chums) Cold, starry night those shepherds’ reality pierced by novel light among the singing stars they find a manger-laden babe A veil of all-to-human darkness fallen upon the world. Client-kings cater to the lock-step of Legionnaires bearing the word of Caesar. How could such a new star shine for the…
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#Haikai Challenge #13 (12/23/17): Christmas #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Welcome back, haijin! Pat yourselves on the back for the marvelous job you did last week! For those of you here for the first time, behold: 1. Charley (Life in Portofino) 2. Jules 3. Zander 4. ToniKanzen 5. Pat R 6. Merril D. Smith 7. qbit 8. Xenia Tran 9. Janice (Ontheland) 10. Jane Dougherty…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2: A #Tanka for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 76 – Christmas & Joy
Kiwinana asks us to use Christmas and Joy in a tanka… Christmas Eve the joy in the children’s eyes as they unwrap gifts aroma of octopus lingering in the air