Tag Archives: age

All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Martha Magenta

  melting ice her first letter after fifty years   All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku by Robert Epstein   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48524159-all-the-way-home

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The First Morioka Haiku Contest

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Martha Magenta

  cherry blossoms an old man leans on his cane   The First Morioka Haiku Contest honourable mention https://morioka-haiku.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/a6ccfdd5c23ef8a50188ee924c1994ab.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1eR_HE8Z2PUzXHnbIN57z3g7Rxd6Ce672eCsmEEqKmTfOlpltv4W1Tnx4

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Haiku – FemkuMag

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Martha Magenta

  lying about her age craggy moon     snowflakes the different shapes of perfect     two to tango the sound of whiskey on his breath   FemkuMag issue 10, March 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_56aed2c213fd42faa84e8fbfb70681b7.pdf?utm_source=%23FemkuMag&utm_campaign=dc969d4d97-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_29_03_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26c80737b4-dc969d4d97-25463281

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Tanka – Frameless Sky

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Martha Magenta

  swallows leave . . . I feel a chill wind around me a desolate winter without you     age is fencing me in slowly the shadows of my past creep up on me     ghosting – you … Continue reading →

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Two Haibun – Blithe Spirit

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Martha Magenta

Denial   I did not want to hear it.   Your blood pressure is too high, the doctor said. This is serious. You might have a heart attack. I’m going to prescribe some pills. Take one every morning.   thunderheads … Continue reading →

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Senryu – Failed Haiku

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Martha Magenta

  broken gate against the wall father drunk again     heads up through the sunroof emergency cesarean     nursing home her last cup of tea gone cold Martha Magenta   Failed Haiku – A Journal of Senryu, Volume … Continue reading →

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Tanka – Red Lights

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Martha Magenta

  coronation year – a monkey dances on the organ while mother shows me off in the street   the blackbird ends its song in the quiet afternoon I place violets on mother’s grave   © Martha Magenta Red Lights … Continue reading →

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Senryu – Prune Juice

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Martha Magenta

  psychologist exchanging my childhood for a better one   full flower moon . . . I watch his inner liberal grow   22 year-old-malt the relativity of age   © Martha Magenta Prune Juice Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun … Continue reading →

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Haiku

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Martha Magenta

  river mist — the sound of wings at twilight   immortelle . . . her perfume lingers in the day room   © Martha Magenta   Presence, issue 60 , March 2018 http://haikupresence.org

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Haiku

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Martha Magenta

  lingering snow grandfather’s silent accordion   © Martha Magenta Cattails, the journal of the United Haiku & Tanka Society – April 2018 http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsApril2018.pdf

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