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Tag: haiku

Posted on December 30, 2020

A Haibun For My Childhood Cat

Lazy were his steps; listless was his mind.

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Posted on December 23, 2020

Lunar Lines

The earth; the moon.

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Posted on December 2, 2020

Four Poems For Me; For You

The cranes cry to the cov’ring cloud.

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Posted on November 18, 2020

Poems From Café Living Room

These pages three, in their loose ‘n blank-lined state, are, together, a haiku.

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Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

Issfet Adorned

Sibling serpent.

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Posted on September 14, 2020

WhatsApp Waka

Park. River.

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Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Haiga

Art ‘n poetry.

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Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

Three Tanka, Then A Whole Haiku

The grain is mismatched ‘cross the breaks.

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Posted on May 30, 2020

9.03am

Tiny talons.

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Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

よくするます

たにくしょくぶつ が さかるます。

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Posted on March 30, 2020

A Tanka On The Superiority Of Tanka

That’s right.

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Posted on December 5, 2019

Approach (Haiku)

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Posted on October 2, 2019October 2, 2019

Bluebird: a haiku in Japanese

Watashi wa neko!

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Posted on September 28, 2019September 28, 2019

Waka By Will: H’okay, Here’re Haikai – and this time… it’s accurate

A chattering of consciousness: Spanish, left; English, right.

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Posted on September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

I Wish I’d Written: not a haiku, but a zappai

First. Last. Any.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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