Tag: tanka
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On “Baby”
“The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.” Muddy Waters Someone once said that “Without the word “baby,” there can be no rock and roll.” From over 40 years of listening to the blues’ child, I believe it! How did we adopt a word for the most innocent of human beings as a term of…
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“Ides of March…” a #tanka (3/15/24)
3/15/24: winter Ides of March no “hazy shade of winter” in this blue sky just the sudden silence of neighborhood songbirds #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“awakening…” a #tanka (3/14/24)
3/14/24: hibernation awakening from hibernation this pi day a black bear wanders among naked maples #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#piday2024
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#Haikai Challenge II #10 (3/12/24): Daffodil (Suisen) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
Have you dried off after that melt off, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Eugi 3. Jules4. Suzette Benjamin 5. shaun tenzenmen Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! A few days of spring weather arrives here in the Queen City of the Sound. Blue sky, twittering birds, even more…
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“Golden Dawn…” a #tanka (3/12/24)
3/12/24: intersection golden dawn a “walk down to the crossroad…” all the merlins seen past the white lions #tanka#micropoetry#poetry Over at dVerse, Merril pubtends Poetics, where we write using the names different varieties of daffodils. The Pub is open! Come join us!
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“as night…” a #tanka (3/7/24)
3/7/24: dew as night yields to dawn morning dew and yet another solitary walk #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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“Ah, the saying…” a #tanka/#kyoka (3/6/24)
3/6/24: flowers Ah, the saying “April showers bring May flowers” what do they say about mad March? #tanka#kyoka#micropoetry#poetry
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“cold rain…” a #tanka (3/5/24)
3/5/24: storm cold rain headlights reflect off the street yet from the kitchen the thock of her knife #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
