
Category: PhotoShop artwork (mine)

Haiku : Spring (2)
billowy breezes
look! flower buds opening
March shooing Spring in
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
A couple months ago on Entertain, I tried a screen recording in Second Life of my avatar doing a ballet with the sound of the rain happening on that sim.
Today I tried a screen recording again, this time within Photoshop to record a tutorial for that word “Spring” up above, putting a photograph in the word. It

Senryu : wonder
imagination
fantasy worlds of wonder
tumbles from my pen
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Tanka : cherita
inscrutable word
prompt says write a Cherita
what the heck is that?
sounds like a cigar or drink
poem form evolved from tanka
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
once upon a time, or so the story goes
Leiana, a royal guard of the deep, doing a usual patrol
saw movement deep within a cave
of course, she had to investigate
a large pile of bones had grown out of the blue
oh dear, myriad baby krakens skittered away from mama’s provisions
cherita terbalik by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Tanka: magic hope
she reached for magic
as earthquakes pushed land upward,
pulling her home back
fool wizards warring above
she hoped to bring back balance
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

A folk tale told in haiku
Just cuz you’re nice, doesn’t make you a fool: an old folktale
aka The Scorpion and The Tortoise (told in haiku)
river rushes by
scorpion asks for a ride
kindly tortoise nods
tap tap on the shell
“what are you doing up there?”
“trying to sting you”
shrugs, “it’s my nature”
“idiot” says the tortoise
diving down, “bye bye”
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
The scorpion stinging a friend on the river has various variants depending on the

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Leaf (Wash’s requiem)
his “leaf on the wind”
triumphant! famous last words —
whedon, how could you?
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
What can I say? I hate it when the

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Sting
an ode to Sting every breath you take all for love – three musketeers we’ll be together haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Reference: Sting Daily Prompts The Daily Post From Amazon on Sting: 57TH […]

Daily Haiku / Senryu: Scorpion
Just cuz you’re nice, doesn’t make you a fool: an old folktale aka The Scorpion and The Tortoise (told in haiku) river rushes by scorpion asks for a ride kindly tortoise nods tap tap on […]