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Tag Archives: song
Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2019
ripening haws the robin changes its song Honorable mention, Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2019 https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/?fbclid=IwAR0Srl5CfNr8yTcZOFpl8N8KT62lSm-Dxt66qT4CSi7UKllk0Ec8F1wKefU
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Tagged autumn, Autumn Moon Haiku Contest, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, birds, changes, haiku, haws, hawthorn berries, Honorable Mention, Martha Magenta, poem, poetry, red, ripening, robin, seasons, song, wildlife
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Poets Salon – Wild
It’s an honour to see my haiku and tanka featured in Poets Salon with the theme Wild, along with some great poets. incoming tide the eager thrust of a seagull’s wings Ο slow river daffodils nod at a passing … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, beach, birds, blackbird, blister, daffodils, deep, eager, haiku, heat, incoming tide, insect, Kath Abela Wilson, kestrel, lose ourselves, lost, lured, Martha Magenta, music, nature, nod, opening, passing, passion, poem, poetry, Poets Salon, rambling, river, rose, scent, scorpion, sea, seabirds, seagull, seashore, seasons, shadow, slow, song, Spring, summer, sunset, swan, swirl, tanka, thrust, tucks, twilight, walk, white parasol, wild garlic, wild morning glory, wildlife, wings, woods, yellow
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Haiku – Blithe Spirit
ants searching for the name of a place on a map dipper’s song along the lost path Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, volume 29, #2, May 2019 ISSN 1353-3320
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Tagged along, ants, bird, Blithe Spirit, dipper, haiku, insects, Journal of The British Haiku Society, lost, map, Martha Magenta, name, nature, path, place, poem, poetry, river, searching, seasons, song, songbird, Spring, summer, threatened species, travelling
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Haiku Dialogue, a shiny instrument
yellow bird his fingers fly over the clarinet Haiku Dialogue, a shiny instrument, 22 May 2019 Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/05/22/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-17/?fbclid=IwAR0TuaQedZdRzfYmSpXw_D4TH-Tir5Xsa5YA5ubb36rY3_cURhg30jg8vgk
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Tagged bird, busker, clarinet, fingers, fly, haiku, Haiku Dialogue, instrument, Martha Magenta, melody, music, poem, poetry, shiny, song, Troutswirl: The Haiku Foundation blog, tune, yellow
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European Kukai 2018
skylark’s song her faded words on a postcard Note: Skylark populations are declining in almost all countries of northern and western Europe. Read more at https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/skylark/threats/#Z7lMm1rS5lSJLVEo.99 10th place EUROPEAN KUKAI 2018 – Monday, December 31, 2018 https://europeankukai.blogspot.com/2018/12/results-of-european-kukai-2018-121_31.html?fbclid=IwAR00SUU8t7QXlaydVaG0KOj2EkSV8BWkMZQJaiWtd1PE8Te6QfDIS8CCX2M
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Tagged birds, declining, Europe, European Kukai 2018, faded, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, populations, postcard, skylark, song, threatened species, words
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Haiku – field feelings
blackbird’s song the shiver up my spine A Sense of Place: Meadow/field – touch Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, October 17, 2018 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/10/17/a-sense-of-place-meadow-field-touch/?fbclid=IwAR1DVHzIbyNJOMjJLP_ADzrRAPWPSuNtd-4KlZMaNk5V-pxSraw6Iv_o7lg
Tanka – Red Lights
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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Tagged afternoon, age, beginning, bird, blackbird, coronation year, dances, death, ending, Martha Magenta, monkey, mother, mother's grave, organ, organ grinder, poem, poetry, quiet, Red Lights, shows off, song, street, tanka, violets, youth
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Haiku – Incense Dreams
the rhythm of the baby’s heartbeat gibbous moon fertility clinic the pond full of tadpoles robin’s song awakening cherry blossoms Incense Dreams Journal, Issue 2.2, July 2018 – theme of birth, rebirth, and awakening … Continue reading