Category Archives: marriage

Selected Tanka

more than fifty years we wandered side by side in seeming bliss who sees the cracks and flaws we patched with liquid gold by Christa Pandey (USA) First Prize Fleeting Words Tanka Competition, 2022 United Haiku and Tanka Society

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Daily Double Haiku: June 18, 2022

in the small hours thunder growls between my husband’s snores   by Susan Lee Kerr (UK) Blithe Spirit, 30:2, May 2020

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Daily Haiku: June 10, 2021

senryu       note to the ex– too late to halve it all       by Lin Geary (Canada) 2021 Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology  

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Daily Haiku: May 17, 2021

senryu       missed anniversary my wife and I exchange vowels     by Lew Watts (USA) Failed Haiku, Issue 37, 2019  

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 3, 2020

senryu       shouts in the house– the angry husband of someone else       by Ruth Holzer (USA) bottle rockets, #13, 2005

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 23, 2020

tiger lilies my sister’s marriage lasts the summer by Glenn G. Coats (USA) bottle rockets, #19, 2010

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Daily Haiku: July 27, 2020

second honeymoon a flock of turnstones skirt the shore   by Tom Painting (USA) Frogpond, 32:1, 2009

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Daily Haiku: Dec. 6, 2019

water on stone we slip off her wedding ring   by Robert Witmer (Japan) Acorn, Fall 2018  

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 11, 2019

senryu   sorting darks and lights my love note in his pocket by Robyn Hood Black (USA) A Moment’s Longing Haiku Society of America Member’s Anthology, 2019

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Daily Haiku: March 24, 2019

senryu honeymoon over my suntan peels   by Collin Barber  (USA) Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

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