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Evening Peace
Written for: November 2021 PAD – Day 30! “Write a The End and/or The Beginning poem.” When darkness falls, I feel at peace, with one dog curled up fast asleep beside me on his blanket, warm. It’s after nine; my … Continue reading
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Tagged cuddling, dog, drifting, evening, Interlocking rubaiyat form, Peace, Written for Challenge
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Evening Coming On
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Mini-Challenge: Let Evening Come (posted by Kim) “I have chosen a poem by Jane Kenyon, ‘Let Evening Come’, to inspire your pastoral poems this weekend: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46431/let-evening-come “I would like you to write a … Continue reading
“nightingale”
Written for: Carpe Diem #1686 Troiku Month (15) Nightingale “Today I have a nice haiku by Chiyo-Ni, one of the most famous classical haiku poetesses we know. She is renown by that wonderful haiku about the Morning Glory, but that’s … Continue reading
Varieties of Rain
Written for: Wednesday Muse #3 – Fifty Shades of Rain (posted by Toni) Write a poem about rain. You can use the Japanese words. “Today the prompt is “rain”. We all have rain in common – too much, too little, … Continue reading
voices crossing water
Written for: The Twiglets #121 – “voices crossing water” thought I heard voices across the lake at midnight call of the loons At twilight, romantic couples board gondolas, and through parted curtains on either side of the canal voices of … Continue reading
At The Station
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #382 Words: wind, neck, spin, howl, hundred, play, touch, shop, drop, lucky, train, plan Hear howl of wind spin, touch my neck like a play of icy affection. A hundred plans dropped from my … Continue reading
Life On The Porch
Written for: Poetic Asides #462 – “For today’s prompt, write a set poem. Collectors often try to complete the set, though some break up the set. Some people set the record straight. Some things need to set (like glue or … Continue reading
autumn evening
Written for: Carpe Diem #1541 – Evening (modern kigo) Back to our Autumn month “the leaves are falling” … Today I have chosen two nice haiku by Jane Reichhold taken from her “A Dictionary of Haiku” section Autumn, subsection Celestial. … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, evening, fog, red, renga with Jane Reichhold, sea, sky
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coolness
Written for: Carpe Diem #1452 cool (suzushi) “Today I have taken a kigo from the sub-division of summer, the season. Our classical kigo for today is cool (suzushi) and it is normally used as a kigo for the summer evening in … Continue reading
mountain(s)
Written For: Carpe Diem #1439 – Mountain(s) The goal is to create haiku, tanka or another form of Japanese poetry inspired on this kigo. Create your poem by using the prompt. That doesn’t mean you have to use the word, but … Continue reading
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Tagged evening, Haiku, Inspired by another poem, light, Spring
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