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Osaka Castle Leaf 342 – Looking Back   Kawanishi Yuzaburo - Osaka Castle (1967) One is often apt to see some odd pets here in Japan. Not just the wid...

Gazing up at Osaka Castle.

An iguana –
wearing a
pink feather boa.

#gembun #shortverse #micropoetry #poetry

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Shared Landscapes Leaf 311 – Art Inspired   Alexandra Buckle - Woodland Edge (2020) This poem was inspired by one of Alexandra Buckle’s prints, ‘Woodland ...

On a walk through
the landscape of
our childhoods –

my mother and me.

#gembun #shortverse #blueskypoets

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Today's the day!

The deadline is 11:59 PM to submit your senryu and related forms of #poetry including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences

The theme is The Senses: Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll. 

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February 27th: 1 day left to get your submissions in to Prune Juice!  We’re looking for your best senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.

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One week left!

Submit your work to Prune Juice!  We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.
This month we are especially interested in work exploring sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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Reminder! Two weeks until submissions close for Prune Juice! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.

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PJ's submission window is NOW open for the month of February! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences

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Coming of Age Leaf 285 – Art Inspired   I recently watched the film ‘Empire of the Sun’ (1987), which is based on J.G. Ballard’s book of the same titl...

COMING OF AGE [II.]

Death’s radiance rises in darkness:

Watching Mrs Victor’s
soul ascend –
into bright white light.

(after J.G. Ballard’s ‘Empire of the Sun’)

One of two #gembun #artinspired #shortverse #blueskypoets

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“Madame est malade …”

Savouring the
bitter tang of oranges
picked in Seville.

#vssdaily prompt: pick 🍊
#haiku #senryu #gembun

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Autumn Leaves Leaf 221 – Reflections   Fukuda Heihachiro - Autumn Leaves (1943) Autumn seems to be a season with its own animus/anima.     Leave...

Three poems on 'Autumn Leaves.' Featuring a collaboration with Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social

#haiku #tanka #gembun #renku #linkedverse #blueskypoets

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Savouring autumn's chill.

Sunlight glints off
bright polished shoes -
auburn leaves underfoot.

#haiku #gembun #renku 🌞👢🍂

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My grandfather, 23 years old.

One of several losses:
7th September 1941.
149 Squadron.

#haikufeels prompt: loss
#gembun #remembrance 🥀

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Only ONE DAY left to submit your work to Prune Juice! We're looking for your best senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are especially interested in work exploring politics.
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Only ONE DAY left to submit your work to Prune Juice! We're looking for your best senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are especially interested in work exploring politics.
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One week left! Submit your work to Prune Juice!  We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are especially interested in work exploring politics.

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REMINDER: two weeks until submissions close for Prune Juice! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are looking for work exploring politics.

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Call for submissions! PJ's submission window is now open for the month of October! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.

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Call for submissions! PJ's submission window is now open for the month of October! We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences.

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now home...

a blur of motion
stripping off
clothes

#gembun

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choosing not to cook tonight

leaving
my front doorstep
unswept

#gembun

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Koishikawa Korakuen #4 & #5 Leaf 141 – Garden Poems   These are the fourth and fifth poems in my sequence on Koishikawa K ō rakuen Gardens (see also, Leaf 108 , Lea...

All the time in the world:

A tortoise –
takes a leisurely swim,
in a jade-green universe.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #gembun

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Is he the greatest? (Leaf 134) – Art Inspired   Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles (1952) National Gallery of Australia This poem is an attempt to synthesise my f...

Is he the greatest?

Blue Poles
Blue Train
Kind of Blue.

#俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku #gembun

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I'll meet you tonight
old moon cold moon wolf moon
find me in the mist

shining

#micropoetry
not a #haiku, a #Gembun terbalik

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freezing fog

in a world of white
still the gossip
of sparrows

#micropoetry #Gembun
my video yesterday

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I'm taking out my DSLR camera after almost half-a-decade.

morning fog
it is fine
this half-revealed world

#haiku #gembun

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How would I set up a starter pack?

inquiry
asking the unasked
question

#gembun #senryu #micropoetry #poetry

(Seriously: how?)

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This is how you poem, #poets!

morning sun
piercing the silence
#language

#gembun #haiku #haibun #writing #micropoetry #poetry

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The irony writes itself…

traffic hum
the usual excuses
keep coming

#gembun #Catholic #micropoetry #poetry

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A publication I should try for sometime?

waxing moon
The Friday that couldn’t
come fast enough

#gembun #haiku

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Mira: we're both right, but some of us are more right than others...

Me: I've been Orwelled!

literature majors
married for so long...
such conversations

#gembun #senryu #literature #micropoetry #poetry

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