Category: MindLovesMisery Menagerie
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The Truth
Today at MLMM we have Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 7th 2018 the voice of the wind. Autumn’s crisp, clean breeze (lacking Spring’s hyperbole) tells it like it is.
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The Nameless & Faceless
Welcome to the Saturday Mix, 3 November 2018! This week we are diving into the depths of our thesaurus and exploring the world of synonyms. Your words this week are: dress soak eat heat draw As soon as their private jet was safely in the air, Tabitha immersed herself her employer’s newly-installed luxury hot…
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On Bubba’s Roof
Written for MLMM’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille The theme for this week is “raindrops shimmer.” Shimmering raindrops Sputter then evaporate On Bubba’s tin roof.
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True Love
Our task for this week at MMLM’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille: Try to describe reality as you are experience it in your life. This way of writing haiku is called “shasei”, it’s invented by Masaoka Shiki, one of the four greatest haiku poets ever and the haiku poet who brought haiku into the 20th century.…
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Fusion
Written for Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Here are the three haiku to use for your “fusion”. Three haiku by Basho (1644-1694) in a translation by renown Jane reichhold (1937-2016): falling sick on a journey my dream goes wandering over a field of dried grass * lying down with quilts over the head…
aka, The Abject Muse 