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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Nov 30, 2010 3:48:27 GMT -5
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 30, 2010 9:09:48 GMT -5
11/29/10 (written last night, forgot to post it here)
So much to write down
Before it become jumbled:
My students await.
This unending day becomes
Night as the clock tolls the hour.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 30, 2010 14:58:10 GMT -5
I wish Katherine-hime would post the photos she has that go along with some of these tanka, as she has been doing on her Live Journal.
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Nov 30, 2010 17:37:56 GMT -5
Er well... In addition to trying a tanka a day, the past two weeks I added to the difficulty by composing within the length of an eleven minute monorail ride just after school. So I posted by iPhone and since posting pics here via mobile is a bit... Well I didn't figure it out, unlike LiveJournal app and facebook. Will try and see what I can do later.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 30, 2010 18:19:30 GMT -5
What about posting the link to your LJ tanka challenge entries, maybe? (she wrote, thinking guiltily about the fact that she doesn't own a smart phone and wouldn't have the first clue how to post photos from it.)
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 30, 2010 18:43:04 GMT -5
Some cling red and gold
To bony branches, some fall
in rustling brown piles.
How can one choose among them
When they are all beautiful?
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Post by Please Delete on Nov 30, 2010 21:08:46 GMT -5
As the month has come to a close (at least out here) I want to say that the poetry this year has been lovely, as usual!
-Ii
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Dec 1, 2010 6:01:23 GMT -5
Proboards won't let me play with the pics, how annoying.
It was fun, most of the time. Harder yet not to just write everyday about work, or sewing... Good experience on the whole.
Wish more people played!
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Post by kazuyama on Dec 1, 2010 19:01:12 GMT -5
My poetry is not so good, my apologies
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Dec 1, 2010 22:29:03 GMT -5
My poetry is not so good, my apologies Given the fashion for writing poetry at the Imperial Court, I am certain that "not so good" poetry was fairly common. The exercise of trying to write a mere poem a day brings that home to me. Some days I'm inspired, some days, it's a struggle and I'm not happy with what I've come up with. Interestingly, sometimes I'll write something that feels clunky and forced to me and someone else reads it and likes it. Like anything, practice helps. I do hope you'll give it a try some time. |
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Dec 2, 2010 17:15:13 GMT -5
Intricate red tiles
Star shaped are leaves underfoot
Under the rain's glaze
Lies fall's final decoupage
Decorating my day's walk
Quite the thunderstorm today. It's going to winnow all the leaves down, more's the pity.
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Dec 3, 2010 9:05:51 GMT -5
Empty, silent, dead Dirty rooms, no chairs or bed The company's done Questioning, the workers gone Where has all that money fled? Dedicated to the buildings of a complex of five company apartments. Probably Mitsubishi Heavy Industry's, they are at the same station. www.flickr.com/photos/crimsongriffin/5228512847/ |
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Dec 8, 2010 7:47:25 GMT -5
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Post by crimsongriffin28 on Dec 25, 2010 4:34:44 GMT -5
The Hired Japanese Gardener
Eyes squinting in sun
Fingers deftly sift the pine
For imperfection
Needles snipped and fall away
Leaving the grace of beauty
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Dec 26, 2010 12:55:35 GMT -5
Eyes squinting in sun Fingers deftly sift the pine For imperfection Needles snipped and fall away Leaving the grace of beauty Fill the sink, immerse Until the bubbling ceases: Sunday's ritual. Five months it has graced the house Without me having killed it. |
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