Archive for Japanese Short Forms
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UNTITLED • by Jack Byrne
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on the chair a perfect circle the old cat Jack Byrne lives in Ireland, the Emerald Isle “the land of poets and scholars” He is 63 years young , married to Valerie oh …maybe 40 years we has 3 adult children all as gifted as he hopes to be. He loves poetry, photography [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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HAIKU 3 • by Marion Clarke
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last rash of snow a cobalt raven sidesteps . . . takes flight Marion Clarke is an artist and writer from Warrenpoint, on the shores of Carlingford Lough in Northern Ireland. She studied and worked in Belfast, France and, up until the year 2000, in England, where she wrote technical articles for the trade press. [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins
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jam making sealed in a jar summer garden Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Jennifer Stakes
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tiny, seventeen syllables – nurtured, he’ll bloom into an epic Jennifer Stakes is British but now lives in Washington DC where she writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. She has managed to find some decent tea but misses Jaffa Cakes.
Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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INTRUDING SHADOWS • by Putheara Khoeun
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alone in the room shadows move silently no courage in sight Putheara Khoeun Full-time slacker who miraculously finished college.
Japanese Short Forms, Other, Poems
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PHOTO SENRYU • Maire Morrissey-Cummins
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spring moon the last photo of her amid bluebells Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoy poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children and was born in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
Japanese Short Forms
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HAIKU • by Colin Bell
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This blank page is grey I shall write rain and cloud here but remember blue. Colin Bell: After a career making Arts Programmes as a producer/director and executive producer for British, American, Japanese and European broadcasters, novelist and poet Colin Bell (aka wolfiewolfgang), gave up television to concentrate on writing. He has [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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NEW JERUSALEM, VERMONT (HAIBUN) • by CDSinex
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Cutting through dense woods well past the logging road’s end— Abandoned homesteads The deer trail brushes against a nameless pond, where hardwoods suddenly change to evergreens; a sign that this was once cleared land. Walking along a crumbling knee-wall, I stop to do the builders a favor and fill a small gap. Stacking fallen stones [...]
Form, Japanese Short Forms
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HAIBUN • by CDSinex
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Heat lightening flashes somewhere on the horizon— A brief distraction There is something about changing seasons. After spring, summer is anticlimactic. A brief gift for having endured one more winter and just long enough to keep me here. In the garden, the deer have found the corn shoots. If they would only be patient there [...]
Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Poems
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HAIKU NEST • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins
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cutting rhubarb cupped in the stems a blackbird’s nest Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. [...]
Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems


