
Tag: Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille and Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie

Haiku: Black Forest
black forest trees sway
cicadas sing snow melted
not empty, listen!
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
On Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, he encourages us to create a haiku that is

Senryu : sleeping like a clam
clammed up in my quilt
alarm tears me from my shell
autumn dreams depart
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Chèvrefeuille challenged us to revise a classical haiku by Basho on the Ise Shima Wedding Rocks.
Senryu : 2017 into 2018
two thousand seventeen
one year dances out, next in
two thousand eighteen
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
luckily 2017 has exactly 5 syllables but it did make for a very short haiku
Love this video. A few days ago, airport employees left their desks and broke out into dance to end the year much to the surprise of the people still in line. Now you know why they tell you you have to check in an hour early!
I love musicals so seeing people break out in song in real life in mundane

Tanka Haibun : First Snow
first snow icy cold
staying in, cuddling with books
playing indoor games
laughter fills up small spaces
shhhh, dad is hibernating
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
When I was a kid, it seemed like in the winter,

senryu troiku: Robin’s tale
first Robin spotted
watching the sheriff’s men ride
she clutches her bow
low lands face the dark
taxation too steep, farms lost

Haiku: Rubaiyat Moon
Ah, Moon, my Delight
constant, upon arising
looks in vain for me
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Senryu: the Dead
Between the crosses
Mark our place; we are the Dead
And we shall not sleep
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Victoria C. Slotto introduced an Erasure poetry form on DVerse “Look What I Found“.

Heeding Haiku : Winter’s Rose
winter’s new year’s rose
Mizuhara’s iced beauty
I’ve got cactus — trade?
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
一輪の 霜の薔薇より 年明くる |
A new year begins With the blooming Of a single frosty rose |
Mizuhara Shuoshi (1892-1981)