Monthly Archives: November 2021

Daily Haiku: Dec. 1, 2021

senryu   Christmas Eve I set our yard’s weather selector for snow   by John J. Dunphy USA Scifaikuest, November 2010  

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 30, 2021

senryu     thud-thud-thud   of my father’s footsteps   whiff of whiskey      by Chen-ou Liu (Canada)

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 29, 2021

senryu sleeping through New Year’s Eve somebody dropped the ball                 by Ronald K. Craig (USA) Frogpond, 43:1, Winter 2020

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 28, 2021

  church songs   filter through the woods   winter solstice     by Mary Stevens (USA) Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, Dec. 21, 2020

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 27, 2021

a dusting of snow just enough Christmas day by Janice Doppler (USA) tsuri-dōrō–a small journal of haiku and senryū Issue #2, March/April 2021

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 26, 2021

bobbing and bobbing on the jazz club wall— the bassist’s shadow by Lenard D. Moore (USA)

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 25, 2021

food bank closed an old man shuts the door on the harvest moon by Chen-ou Liu (Canada) Honorable Mention 2021 Autumn Moon Haiku Contest

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 24, 2021

large print Bibleon the Thanksgiving table . . .the bread of life by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA) Time of Singing, A Journal Of Christian Poetry Vol. 43, “Intermezzo,”  Fall 2016

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Thanksgiving Song by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff

Thanksgiving Song  Ever, it seems, a spoiled child, I am nagging again about the small things, the trivial shards of a life spent consuming too much, expecting too much, thinking it’s my way or your way, as if it’s a … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 23, 2021

Christmas play   the eight-year-old wise man   nibbles his chocolate myrrh     by Robert Witmer (Japan) Modern Haiku, Issue 48.1, Winter/Spring, 2017

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