Lafcadio

The half-raw bread burns—
the censors join the censor in me.

—Makoto

#senryu #poem #PJJournal
#prompt04 #censor
#WritingCommunity

sun-catcher the verve of a hummingbird’s wing
#vss365 #monoku

twenty twenty-five:
mags ask for sunshine haiku
and I like Christo

#senryu #poem #prompt04 #censor #PJJournal #WritingCommunity

All these sages
Sleep
with their mouths open

—Jack Kerouac, Collected Haikus

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the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

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Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #Censor (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
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#prompt 04
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last hummingbird
an empty teacup sitting
beside her chair

#haiku

arrow smith
carving a life
out of nothing

#senryu #PJJournal

mother gone
moonlight
shimmers
the last
white
rose

in memory Marie Beary

#haiku #deathpoem

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post breakup —
i switch back
to soft boiled

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#WritingCommunity
#Prompt03

a mended quilt
stretches across the grass
end of summer
we see the subtle beauty
in all the many patches

#tanka #TankaThursday

oh OK I was just teasing anyway!

morning news
four eggs
loose
on the countertop

#senryu #poem #PJJournal #eggs #prompt

organic eggs—
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu

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#prompt03 eggs

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#WritingCommunity

the president
splattered with eggs thrown
crowd cries “OEUF!”

#PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity

beautiful...the hummingbirds here disappeared yesterday as if they knew it was October

the subtle hum
of the tea kettle’s simmer
days of summer
shorten into autumn
the last hummingbird visits

#TankaThursday subtle #5lines #micropoetry

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and write the poetry! 😊

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Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #eggs (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
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#prompt 03
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Welcome to Prune Juice's first official Complete the Haiga! Write a poem for the image below and the winner will be published in the December issue of Prune Juice! 🧵1/2

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#poetrycommunity

Great to debut in the new minimalist #poetry journal SMOLS thanks to editor Robin Jacobson. Mine is a 2-worder written listening to Ride while thinking about supernovae. Also sharing Kimberly Kuchar's wonderful redacted one.
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Welcome back to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning:
#Nation
(with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on the human Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

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In case you need to hear it today:

Being exhausted is completely valid.

The world is exhausting and actively trying to wear you down. There is nothing wrong with you if you are feeling it.

The wrong in this aspect is folks of the world trying to make you think this is normal.

condensation
running down our glasses
grandmother tells me
about the child
she lost in the war

#tanka by Christopher Costabile

Published in Fields of Gold
poems of peace
The Bamboo Hut 2022 - peace poems from around the world

#micropoetry #tankapoem

a poet's
greatest dilemma
a rosebud
about to bloom
civilians killed in battle

#tanka #5lines #tankapoem
Published Bright Stars 6, An Organic Tanka Anthology
M. Kei, Editor

Also, Chinese translation & commentary by Chen-ou Liu is featured on the NeverEndingStoryHaikuTanka blogspot 6/2/2022