Simple Tanka Prose for the Seasons
Harusaki On the probing black finger ends of maples now the palest buds where someone has dusted them with green […]
Japanese Forms, Poems, Tributes
Tributes
Haibun, Japanese Forms, Poems, Tributes
Basho’s Hut: A Haibun
I asked people at souvenir shops, bakeries, at Circle Ks for directions to Konpukuji Temple, but no one had heard
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Three Haiku and a Tanka
tar pit an urge for immortality only an eternal present jackhammer the wasp’s face what friendship
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Four Haiku
third day hosting in-laws I remind them about the poison ivy caterpillar’s odyssey same fate any direction
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Willows on the Crow
The willows whipped us along the banks of the Crow River, the wind-driven lashings hustling us along on our cobbled
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from Salaryman (A Certain Sorrow)
Adapted Haiga A certain sorrow cannot bear this suit. Bowing politely, it guides us home. It washes the body, revealing