Do you need help to calm the residue of external “happenings” of modern life: the nightmares of our days today. A moment to appreciate short sojourns in nature gazing at the moon through a poet's eyes? Then I highly recommend this book.
Tackling a Javanese poetry form for two prompts this week. I hope you enjoy it.
Do you know about the kami-no-ku and shimo-no-ku in TANKA? Here's a very brief intro: At Masticadores USA.
Three Tanka in one post on the butterfly effect on all existential battles. Respect All Life!
Attempting three prompts with a non-conforming rebellious feeling for the end of the month. Happy Samhain my friends. And Happy Diwali too.
Specific Theme Child Of My Womb it is blisswhen you reach outto touch meand melt my heart—tense my thumbstill this moment—branch of my rib, I love you minutes flywhen I'm…
A Tanka Puente with the theme of best and worst moments.
uncertainty looms in every corner—what to do, what to do but all ills come equipped, they say,complete with answers waiting the humane will figure it out: not exactlyrocket science Copyright…
herbed, green, and grassy the smell--like forest bathing.
All the happy news I have to give--right here, in this blog post. Please don't forget me.
Never has it been as profuse as when in the thick of torrid summer heat melancholy accommodates. [Etheree]
This is my second time writing a Kimo; my first with the garland Kimo. From revisiting that first time post, I realize one more point, Kimo is an Israeli version of the haiku. Unrhymed. No title.