Do you like word play as much as I do? I’m a hopeless ‘punner,” and this senryu/haiga allowed me to have a little fun. I hope you like it, too.
This haiga was published in Prune Juice, A Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun and Haiga, Issue 21, March 2017.
I was very lucky to have two senryu published in Failed Haiku, A Journal of English Senryu, Issue 16, April 2017
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traffic jam reversing my indecision
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sleeplessness…
balancing dreams
and more dreams
My thanks to editor, Mike Rehling. Failed Haiku can be downloaded as a pdf file. This issue contains so many wonderful poets and senryu. Please go and explore it:
Click to access FailedHaikuIssue16.pdf
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My thanks to editor, Marilyn Hazelton, for publishing this tanka in Red Lights, one of the best tanka journals around.
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I am so pleased to be published for the first time in Red Lights. Edited by Marilyn Hazelton, Red Lights is one of the quality tanka journals.
The fall issue of cattails is out at last. Due to a big switch around of editors, the September issue was delayed and is now published in December. What a big issue it is, full of so many poems to read. Many of my favorite poets are in this issue and there are some who are new to me still to be discovered.
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I have two haiku included in this issue:
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first blossoms –
I tell myself this year
will be different.
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daybreak …
the birds wake us
song by song.
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and a few senryu:
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long yawns …
breathing in
his boredom.
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zafu zabuton zazen zzzzz
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plus one tanka:
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long ago I heard
the sound of wuthering wind
blowing through the night –
a bleakness so forlorn,
a loneliness bereft of words.
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My thanks to all the editors of cattails for their hard work. I cannot begin to imagine the number of hours it takes to put together something this substantial.
A Poet in Time 