Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #103 (9/7/19): windstorm (nowaki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hope you savored your times of contemplation, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Tessa3. Reena Saxena4. Jane Dougherty 5. Zael Sealing6. Linda Lee Lyberg7. Kerfe Roig8. Revived Writer 9. Janice10. Deborah Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas as a Category five hurricane.…
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“withered maple…” a #tanka (9/6/19)
9/6/19: dying trees withered maple How can it still survive its pestilence? What will provide us shade when it finally falls? Inspired by: Second Place ($50) “broken oaks…” Michael H. Lester Los Angeles, California http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tsa-contest/winners-and-judges-comments/2019-sanford-goldstein-international-tanka-contest-winners
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“a weed-wacker’s hum…”: a #tanka (9/5/19)
a weed-wacker’s hum and three more periods before day’s end hoping for a hassle-free commute home this afternoon
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“Labor Day…” a #tanka (9/2/19)
9/2/19: spider web Labor Day a spider web glistening with rain drops How the summer season yields to Autumn’s return tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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“Summer wind…” a #tanka (8/31/19): California Vacation ’19 Notes 5 (Day 6)
Summer wind along the height of sentinel dome before walking among Mariposa Grove Sequoias #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge 102 (8/31/19): Autumn contemplation (shuushi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enough rain for you, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth2. Jane Dougherty3. Reena Saxena4. Jane Dougherty 5. Zael Sealing6. Janice7. Xenia Tran8. Deborah 9. Jules10. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. And a special congratulations to our stargazing contributors from the week before: Haikai Challenge Participants…
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#Haikai Challenge #101 (8/24/19): autumn rain (aki no ame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
I hope you enjoyed the River of Heaven, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: (I will post two weeks worth of contributors next week.) Ultreya! The first storm came Thursday afternoon. Frank and I barely cleared the deck, our laptops in hand, before the deluge. The next one came later that evening, as we attended…
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“morning sunlight…” a #tanka (8/23/19)
8/23/19: fleeting moment morning sunlight swallowed by more rainclouds how fleeting these experiences of enlightenment #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 