[Coming soon!] STRAWBERRY MOON: In the Japanese tradition of #LinkAndShift, a companion to ‘in a bottle of ink’. Haiku, tanka, and haibun, plus a primer explaining many of the differences between Eastern and Western Japanese short-form poetry. Spoiler: it’s not about the syllable count.

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old pond
the sky folds in
to a strider's wake
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#BNWmacro #ClassicMono #photography #haiku #poetry #JapaneseShortForm #LinkAndShift #HomageToBasho #EastCoastKin

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nine-light chandelier
. . . a moth
visits each one
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#senryu #haiku #JapaneseShortForm #poetry #LinkAndShift #Not575 #AuthorsOfBluesky #ECK

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feminist groundswell
. . . a deep rumble
of thunder
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#senryu #haiku #JapaneseShortForm #poetry #LinkAndShift #Not575 #AuthorsOfBlueSky #ECK

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sunburn . . .
I try to guess the brand
of shades he wore
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#senryu #haiku #poetry #JapaneseShortForm #linkandshift #not575