For One Deep Breath, Week 9 the theme is Gardens for haiku. A few moods and styles of haiku: — nature grooms herself: brown columbine flower stalk popped off overnight — tomato unhooked from stem breast weight in palm — tomato cluster a traffic light — so thirsty it burst its own skin. Grinning, soused […]
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word chain umpteen 2
come see, comme ca? absence makes the heart go wander. be aware of where, uh where, tupperware earrings and rings, oh wear the wares, are U tonight, why did you leave me wary beware, I lurched the world over.. caught a round werwolf, he snared a lover and poof I was wrong. —
I enter, in no cooler than out,
I enter, in no cooler than out, a steam sauna of a day leaving myself open to chance leave the door unlocked it would take a godly crew of shirtless men with a ram (turgid, battering or sacrificial) to part the swollen wood from thickened jamb, out no cooler than in . . . .wav […]
hirsute suits her suite
each moment a culmination, concepts thaw on paper, food can’t help but taste, retract, not detract from, attract to, proactive dews, dusk at the due time, protractors scribe, you have arrived to describe John Deere tractors arc, slipping even with chains, rutting, unstucking, traction lost is not inaction gained, pulled on the pavement to action, […]
Tanka vs Haiku
Source: Jane Reichhold at Aha Poetry has a lot of food for thought at the comparison. Some seem to write tanka if they overflow on syllable count for haiku but they are different beasts. TANKA————————–HAIKU History 13 centuries———————–3 centuries Aim beauty—————————–is-ness lyrical——————————-fragmented Social Background courtly —————————-merchants and lower class literary—————————–part of a game Techniques to […]