Great grinding jaws stalk dormant leafless stretches ofbirch and pine. Hawks huntfleeing hare and mice, afrightunder a pale yellow sun. For months, a crew of tree service people have been working to clear the power lines on a five-mile stretch of road (and probably more, but I only see them on the stretch I regularly…
Category: tanka
The Sunday Muse 148 — Distracted
Light slides foreverdown your silky thigh, launchpadfor erotic flight.Warm milk calls pussy awayas angled skin joins in play. This may be my first erotic tanka! Great photo to write to for a cold February afternoon. Shay is today’s host of The Sunday Muse.
Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard and dVerse OLN
Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts. image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:•Still Cold (yokan)/New…
#Haikai Challenge #172 (1/3/21): first sun (hatsuhi) — winter vacuum, a tanka
Winter Vacuum, a Tanka Finding this morning a hole where first sun should be, vacuum sucking light; stranded gold, streaming from earth, as my slack face funnels tears. Image is from the HubbleSite. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: A double-header! Two distinct challenges in one week! The first, a…
dVerse — MTB 227 — Angels Near
Once peery twinkles, now opaque orbs. Ears batten, echoed messengers. Loved ones murmur denouement. Angels’ whooshes take me home. Image: “Angel Wings and Heaven,” by Sherri’s of Palm Springs. Frank J. Tassone is today’s host of dVerse‘ Meet the Bar. Frank says: Let us write our own Jisei. Write a haikai (haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka,…
dVerse — MTB 227 — Still
Feathers flash — then thump.Is the chickadee stunned; orsomething more final?In the morning, still she lies;Night hunters left her intact. Frank J. Tassone is today’s host of dVerse‘ Meet the Bar. Frank says:Let us write our own Jisei. Write a haikai (haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, Gogyohka) or haikai-esque poem that reflects on imminent…
November Winds
November Wind Painting by Deva Noori Lehmann Large wind drowns small housein icy moaning currents.Soon dusk comes like death. I escape with warm blanketsand the soft purrs of the cats. image link
