Dichotomy (tanka)

Without is sunshine
new green, a warm gentle breeze—

Perfect Practice (senryu)

Crave repetition
Do it right or start again
Mastery beckons

Help for a haiku

Stuck in a Haiku?
Feel that you’ve nowhere to go?
Why not try Tanka?
Two extra lines to play with
and thirty-one syllables

©Jemverse

Love You More

Darling, I love you
more than I did yesterday
less than I will tomorrow

Brynn The Cat – Haiku and Tanka

Brynn The Cat

 

peekaboo …
awaiting her human
the cat watches

A Dodoitsu – March 26, 2016

Dodoitsu – Honey-suckers

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under the warm spring sunshine
inside blossoms and bright blooms
bees hop hither and thither
(poor honey-suckers)

© G.s.k. ‘16

Christmas Market – Choka

Christmas Market, Arco Italy

 

inside the wooden huts
in the square warm candles glow
lighting up bright gifts –

Morning Haiku and Waka – Autumn Reflections

the last days of fall
just a single yellow leaf 
in gathering fog

A Ripe Strawberry – Haibun

Walking along the blossoming fields in a spring dawn, enjoying the singing forests of the masts in the port in summer, a carpet of coloured leaves on green in autumn and the stark beauty of sleeping trees and snow, which season is my favourite?

Tanabata Rain* – Troiku

Tanabata Rain*

falling rain
magpies flock to the wheat fields 
lovers forgotten

The Warrior – Choka

The Warrior

under the moon light
in the last days of autumn
the warrior stood tall –

Poetry Challenge: Sedoka

Poetry challenge: Sedoka poem

Falcon and Rabbit

falcon on the wind
circling in the distant clouds
observing lowly morsels 

My Childhood Sunday – Dodoitsu – August 30, 2015

sitting by the kitchen door
watching mamma fry chicken
biscuits in the oven bake
my childhood Sunday

A Renga “this autumn” by Basho – May 23, 2015

Tan Renga with Basho “this autumn”:

Tree in bloom

 

this autumn
why getting older is like
a bird into the clouds

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)