Tag: tanka
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#Haikai Challenge #96 (7/27/19): cicada (semi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Warm enough for you, haijin! I know I am! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Tessa2. Jane Dougherty3. Jules4. Reena Saxena 5. Dave Madden6. The Dark Netizen7. Janice8. Xenia Tran 9. Linda Lee Lyberg10. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead It’s the last weekend of July. That means…
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Late Afternoon Weeding: a #tankaprose
Mira has the green thumb, not me. The cool of the late afternoon comes upon us at last. The humidity remains constant; that is the one thing we did not miss out west! Still, She decides it’s a better time to weed than during the prime heat of the day. She fills her pine basket…
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“scouring heat…” a #tanka (7/22/19)
7/22/19: prompt-free scouring heat the welcome relief of thunder too soon, the rainclouds pass and cicadas sing without pause #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haikai Challenge #95 (7/20/19): smoldering [hot] (moyuru) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Have you opened your third eye like the lotus, haijin? Congratulations to contributors from two weeks ago: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Reena Saxena3. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr4. Jane Dougherty5. Dwight L. Roth 6. Linda Lee Lyberg7. Jules #28. Tessa9. Xenia Tran10. Janice 11. Deborah12. Revived Writer13. Petru J Viljoen Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical…
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#Haikai Challenge #94 (7/13/19): Desert Rose #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enlightened yet, haijin? I’m sure, if you are or aren’t, that it wasn’t for lack of trying! Congratulations to last week’s contributors. (Remember, since I’m away, I can’t post last week’s contributors, so keep a lookout for the big round-up post, coming soon!) Onward! As you may have guessed, We have traveled to the Southwestern…
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Inverted Expectations? (A #TankaProse)
The searing heat of a New York July weekend continues even through scattered showers. Already the skies darken with thunderclouds, yet the temperature and humidity yield not one point. Does Sydney suffer from a prevailing windchill and frost warnings? Has yet more snow consumed the streets? Or is this the sympathetic, yet uninformed, musing of…
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#Haikai challenge #93 (7/6/19) lotus (hasu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Thank you for acknowledging your independence, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty2. Reena Saxena3. Tessa4. The Dark Netizen 5. Janice6. Petru J Viljoen7. Jules8. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 9. Merril D. Smith10. Linda Lee Lyberg11. Dwight L. Roth12. Revived Writer Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead We…
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“while ‘Stranger Things’…” a #tanka #kyoka (7/5/19)
7/5/19: strange situation while “Stranger Things” and “the Dark Crystal” drop on Netflix … “Mad Magazine” publishes its last edition this August #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 