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Poetics: Ch-ch-changes
“The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join in the dance.” Alan Watts Hi! This Team member Toni, better known as Kanzen Sakura. I am your Pub Tender today and I...
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Japanese Poetry Forms: Twins part I
Hello. Toni (Kanzensakura) here. I am happy today to talk with you all about Japanese poetic forms. I originally was going to discuss four forms but have gone instead with just two. Perhaps at...
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Japanese Poetic Forms Part II: More Twins!
Hello. Toni (Kanzensakura) here as your Pubtender today. Pull up a barstool, order up something good to drink, and let’s talk about another set of unidentical twins – tanka and bussokusekika (simpler...
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Japanese Poetry Forms: Twins part I
Hello. Toni (Kanzensakura) here. I am happy today to talk with you all about Japanese poetic forms. I originally was going to discuss four forms but have gone instead with just two. Perhaps at...
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Haibun Monday #10: Hanami
photo by and copyright by kanzensakura Hello my poetic friends! Kanzen Sakura (Toni Spencer) behind the bar today. Spring is here and along with spring comes….hanami. In Japan, this is the time for...
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Haibun Monday #11: Reach Out
Hello everyone! Welcome to you all. Today is a rather unusual prompt for the haibun. I usually try to stick to traditional subjects but a few days ago, I became intrigued with an advertisement I read...
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Quadrille – 8
Skip to my Lou Welcome! Happy May! Today is Quadrille Monday. Toni here to give you the word for our poem – “skip”. Skip is an interesting verb. It has several variants: skips, skipped, skipping,...
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Haibun Monday #14 –“Too Many Mind…”
Hello everyone! Welcome to Haibun Monday. I hope you all are well and enjoying early Summer weather. In my neck of the woods, it is more like April – cold, rainy, more rain. But next Monday in the US...
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Haibun Monday #15 All Things Quotidian
Hello my family of poets! Toni here (kanzensakura, hayesspencer). So wonderful to join you all today for our Haibun Monday feature. We all have things that are part of our daily lives: our first...
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Haibun Monday: 50 Shades of Rain
Hello my family of Poets! Welcome to Haibun Monday. Toni here (hayesspencer, Kanzensakura, toni spencer) bringing you the prompt and thought for haibun today. Today the prompt for our haibun is...
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Haibun Monday #17
It’s Too Darned Hot! Hello! Thank you Cole Porter for the inspiration for the title. The Pub is open and we had a slam bang anniversary last week. Today is Haibun Monday and basically, our haibun are...
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Haibun Monday: A Little Romance
Hi! Happy Haibun Monday to you all. I hope you all have your heartsready to pen a romantic haibun. I think we all have romance in common: a first romance, unrequited, summer love, lost love,...
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Meeting the Bar – Form: Tanka
Welcome to the MTB session! Today we are exploring the Tanka. I know many of us write tanka but do we really know how to write it and its history? Tanka is one of the earliest of Japanese poetic...
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Haibun Monday: The Sky IS the Limit
Hello. I am most happy to welcome you to Haibun Monday. I trust you all have had a good week and are looking forward to a good week ahead. Summer is nearly past but the sky is still glorious above us!...
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Haibun Monday – Twinkle, twinkle
Hello all of you fine, intrepid poets. Happy Labor (US) Labour (Canada) Day! I’m sure you all are having a good end to summer although to be honest, Summer will hang around these parts until...
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Haibun Monday: Winds of Change
Hello everyone! Welcome to Haibun Monday. Today, I will be discussing “changes in seasons” – fall to winter, winter to spring, spring to summer, summer to fall or, seasons in our lives – youth to young...
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Haibun Monday: You say it’s your birthday?
Hello fearsome and fearless poets! It is Toni Spencer (kanzen sakura or hayesspencer) here with you today after a personal haitus. It is good to be back and prompting you for this Haibun Monday...
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Haibun Monday – Free for All
Hello everyone! It is Haibun Monday – again! For those of you in the US, I hope you had a grand Thanksgiving. Indeed, we should all be grateful, everyday, for everything with which we are blessed...
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Haibun Monday: And to all a goodnight
Hello my fellow poets! Welcome to my final Haibun Monday posting of the year – both old and new faces are welcome here at the Pub to sit by the fire or at the bar or among the many tables scattered...
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Haibun Monday – The Best Things in Life are Free
Hello my intrepid and globetrotting poets. Toni Spencer (aka hayesspencer, Kanzen Sakura)here with a nice and easy peasy haibun prompt for you all. I have been absent for a bit because of things going...
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