tonguing old blues song the mind’s eye rolls heart tugged 2 ways — same corner, song temptation to tip with sheet music — feet fall into step gravitate towards drums — Sound of Music prompt —
Tag archives: haiku
tea
return home teabag stained page tea still undrunk One Deep Breath, Coffee and Tea Prompt —
Cycling scenic route
uphill thighs burn caught in jagged breath tunnel – eyes squint, mouth gape. — down whoosh chicory veined pink maple keys cluster cathedral arched boughs One Deep Breath Prompt: Week 10, the Scenic Route
One Deep Breath (9)
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 […]
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 […]