Here I was, writing #haiku after haiku about the water hyacinths I first encountered in Kerala and immediately fell in love with. I now learn that they're considered 'invasive'.

the town reshaping
at the dictates of the river
becoming aware
of the subjectivity
in my epiphanies

#tanka #tankaprose

#tankaprose by new contributor Vaishnavi Ramaswamy of Chennai, India @haiku_vaishnavir #poetry #tanka #poetrylovers #cat #micropoetry #haiku #india #prose #amwriting #moon #poetrycommunity

The Last Exit Trapped between the center line and the ditch

"The car leaves the ground with a whoosh and is quickly transformed into a flying carpet in the shape of a raven..."
The Last Exit by Richard Grahn
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#TankaProse #Poetry #Dreams
#LitPub #Reprints

Most Precious Gift - #TankaTuesday #tankaprose #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro YA, fiction, Diasodz, author, paranormal, fantasy, books, reading, writer, indie,

Most Precious Gift - #TankaTuesday #tankaprose #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @yvettemcalleiro.bsky.social yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com/2025/09/most...

Drowsy A dreamer’s alternative to Ambien

"...fairies in the pillowcase chanting peals of thunder, bed sheets ‘round my legs in an anaconda’s grip — slipping in and out of stupor..."
Drowsy by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry #TankaProse #reprints in The Mad River #litpub

Opening with One Loose Strut

I’ve never thought of myself as
an unhappy writer,
but being asked to write
in a style that
isn’t mine
makes me restless—

Who should I be now?
Nora?

It just doesn’t reach
the sides of the mattress:
borrowed blankets,
no calls,
the volume of seagulls.

#tankaprose

My first published #TankaProse in contemporary haibun online issue 21.2!!

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Treehouse Camping - #TankaTuesday #tankaprose #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro YA, fiction, Diasodz, author, paranormal, fantasy, books, reading, writer, indie,

Treehouse Camping - #TankaTuesday #tankaprose #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @yvettemcalleiro.bsky.social yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com/2025/07/tree...

Tanka Society of America - How to Enter the 2025 Tanka Prose Contest Please Enter the Tanka Society of America Tanka Prose Contest A 25th Anniversary Special Event: Call for Submissions Submission Window: June 1 through July 31, 2025 (in-hand deadline). Eligibility: Op...

#TankaProse #PoetryContest

Deadline July 31, 2025

#Micropoetry #Prose #Poetry

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I have a braided #tankaprose incl. 6 #tanka which I would have loved to submit to the tanka prose contest by The Tanka Society of America. But I can't. The reason? 'A maximum of three tanka' are allowed. Rules! Ugh. #Rules should never stiffle innovation and good writing. Full stop.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 9/9

Lakes, old stone walls line
the narrow country road—
I watch the landscapes,
every thing,
pass.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 8/9

Cutting words
out of old mags
to make a mini book,
some poems to acknowledge
I know motivation.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 7/9

Afternoon tea
with three plates
in time
I add more clotted cream
to my happiness.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 6/9

The mug with the fox
and the round marks
next to the coaster,
am I missing
something?

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 5/9

A load of dishes
and the swoosh of the tea towel
deep in my skin
I think I can remember,
I really think I can.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 4/9

I pull
the curtain walls—
a foreign country,
taking my breaths
as they are.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog as a whole, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 3/9

Slow, slow—
I fish
in my hesitation
to say it out loud,
where is any easiness?

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 2/9

I talk about
the trees, the landscape, the signs,
anything that is
tuning the chords
in my chest.

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Here's a #tankaprose that you can also read on my #blog, but I'll share it in snippets here, accompanied by the #tanka .

Part 1/9

The untended side
of my language
that i don’t know
what to do with this
quiet question clouds my hands …

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Lalaland After having watched Laputa1, I write to my friend: “There are things that hold us together, and without them the ground will shake and fall apart, but maybe what’s most important will …

A new #tankabun #tankaprose on my #blog:

Lalaland piandannes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/l...

Here's a #tankabun #tankaprose . I've started doing blackout poetry years ago and hiding or finding poems within prose is a fun way to get creative! Here you have two hidden/"found" #tanka within, but you can read them together, too.

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The Tomb’s Testimony Utter emptiness... The Galilean rabbi, whose preaching attracted multitudes, whose signs enthralled the masses, whose message comforted the afflicted & afflicted the comfortable, lies dead in a stone-cold tomb. As though it could be any other way I should know. Two righteous men placed him inside me. After he endured a travesty-of-a-trial by his co-religionist leaders. After that coward Pilate scourged him, then washed his hands of him.

Come experience "The Tomb's Testimony" a #tankaprose #haibun #tanka #haiku #poetry for #NaPoWriMo2025GloPoWriMo

The Tomb’s Testimony Utter emptiness... The Galilean rabbi, whose preaching attracted multitudes, whose signs enthralled the masses, whose message comforted the afflicted & afflicted the comfortable, lies dead in a stone-cold tomb. As though it could be any other way I should know. Two righteous men placed him inside me. After he endured a travesty-of-a-trial by his co-religionist leaders. After that coward Pilate scourged him, then washed his hands of him.

Come experience "The Tomb's Testimony" a #tankaprose #haibun #tanka #haiku #poetry for #NaPoWriMo2025GloPoWriMo

Butterfly House When you come to Amsterdam because of a single sloth graffiti, you almost get the feeling that life is not about what you want, but what you do with what you have. as if stonescould beimpressedby u…

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#tanka #tankaprose #tankabun #Amsterdam #tulips #journey

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity Have you enjoyed the stories from the image as much as I have? If you missed any, the list of participating authors is below. Jan Sikes: LINK Yvette Calleiro: LINK This month I went with a tanka pr…

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity dlfinnauthor.com/2025/04/15/c...

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity Have you enjoyed the stories from the image as much as I have? If you missed any, the list of participating authors is below. Jan Sikes: LINK Yvette Calleiro: LINK This month I went with a tanka pr…

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity dlfinnauthor.com/2025/04/15/c...

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity Have you enjoyed the stories from the image as much as I have? If you missed any, the list of participating authors is below. Jan Sikes: LINK Yvette Calleiro: LINK This month I went with a tanka pr…

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity dlfinnauthor.com/2025/04/15/c...

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity Have you enjoyed the stories from the image as much as I have? If you missed any, the list of participating authors is below. Jan Sikes: LINK Yvette Calleiro: LINK This month I went with a tanka prose for the image. The Escape It was just me and Sadie, my horse. Only my backpack held what remained of my life. This left me with a change of clothes, soap, lip gloss, lotion, family pictures, my mother’s jewelry, a journal, a pen, and a map.

#CreativePerspectiveChallenge Four Results #jansikes #yvettecalleiro #tankaprose #flashfiction #poetry #writingcommunity

Have you enjoyed the stories from the image as much as I have? If you missed any, the list of participating authors is below. Jan Sikes: LINK Yvette Calleiro: LINK This month I…

Coleridgian Contrast not the "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" No wedding guests to mesmerize, nor grand stories to tell... no Albatross around my neck breaking dawn I'm no bane of goodwill birds, doomed to watch friends die... no grandiose dreams of Elysium living Just another wayfarer on the road to anywhere, soon to seek the way back home. as though by moonlight blessing creatures I deliver myself from destiny

Come expoerience "Coleridgian Contrast" a split-#renga #haibun with #tankaprose accents

Mortal Moments That moment when his red-faced fury could turn on me... Or that moment when my back slid across the stones on the bottom of the Animus River, the surface tauntilizingly close, yet out-of-reach. Or that moment when all of my life lies in my past, as I exhale for the last time. cold rain a bird leaps among bare branches…

Come experience "Mortal Moments" a #tankaprose #haibun #tanka #haiku #poetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo