Tag Archives: haikai challenge
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Baby, It’s Cold Out There
55July 13, 2020 by petrujviljoen
It’s South Africa. It’s winter, a particularly cold one (for South Africa). It’s a very small town, ravaged by Covid-19. …
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Autumn haibun
24September 22, 2019 by petrujviljoen
One can say it in chrome green and indigo blue but for saying it as it is the bronzes, oranges, …
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Lotus
18July 14, 2019 by petrujviljoen
The oldest of the flowering plants. A living fossil. The lotus survived the ice age, predating humanity by many thousands …
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Arose
20February 18, 2018 by petrujviljoen
a rose arranged in an artwork of the earth two stories above it …. Linked to Frank J Tassone’s haikai …
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Call
17February 9, 2018 by petrujviljoen
humanity diminished – clarion call of the skylark ….. A wish for a South Africa in dire need of a …
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nuanced
11January 31, 2018 by petrujviljoen
the sky, light-shadowed raven wings the firmanent streaming nuances … Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge
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Accipitur Melanoleucus
14January 20, 2018 by petrujviljoen
clean, still, beak tucked in – hunt’s primal end – mine undone sparrow of the hawks ….. Linked to Frank …
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Freedom – Haikai Challenge
7January 16, 2018 by petrujviljoen
a freedom unlearned approached with a new respect – conformity kills ……. Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge
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Untitled – A Senryu
12January 7, 2018 by petrujviljoen
a cold sweat beading every fibre on lockdown – privacy raided … Linked to Frank J Tassone’s Haikai Challenge 15
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Tanka
41December 10, 2017 by petrujviljoen
cup tilts, spills, shatters on the kitchen floor – absence expanding summer’s ever green resumes its whispers beneath the breeze …
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