Tag: daily prompts

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Rhyme

“this is not a poem” she complained, “there is no rhyme” I shrugged, “it’s haiku” References: Rhyme Daily Prompts The Daily Post Photograph: mine, I took it when I was living in Japan. I don’t […]

Haiku/Senryu28 August

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Magnetic

magnetic true north
trusting a compass, you’re lost
declination shifts

Did you know the Geographic (True) North Pole and the

Haiku/Senryu27 August

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Homage (Jun Fujita)

Homage
Jun Fujita (1888-1963), photojournalist, poet

Jun Fujita shot
Chicago massacre scene
known too for tanka

Both tankas below by Jun Fujita published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. June 1921.

May Moon
Milky night;
Through the resting trees
A petal —
Falling

Haiku/Senryu26 August

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Dignify

no fancy label
dignified at birth; simple
love my lived-in jeans

References:

Dignify
Daily Prompts
The Daily Post

Photograph:
happy child by Greyerbaby
copyright license 8/26/2017 CC0 Creative Commons
Pixabay

Amazon: one of the things I love about a great pair of jeans is they never die; they just get reconstructed.

A Denim Story: Inspirations from Bellbottoms to Boyfriends

Injeanious: 52 Ways to DIY Denim

Denim Revolution: Dozens of Ways to Turn Denim Cast-Offs into Fashion Must-Haves

jeans backpack

Haiku/Senryu25 August

Daily Haiku / Senryu : Inhabit

birthday thoughts

the skin I inhabit
growing older but inside
I’m still 28

an old poem I wrote
the anxiety of youth
some things I don’t miss

Haiku/Senryu24 August

Daily Haiku / Senryu : synchronize

A few senryu thoughts on sync, synchronize, synchronicity

Haiku/Senryu23 August

Daily haiku / senryu : visceral

It’s so visceral
he said, on reading my poem
huh? what does that mean?

Back in my twenties, I shared my poems with my friends at work, the post office. Mike B. made that comment. We were so young back then, in our twenties, a bunch of us.

Haiku/Senryu22 August