Best Sketchbook Poems

waka,tanka,yugen
elegant poem-songs to pen

haiga,wenren,haiku
multi-talents to read or view

renga,haikai,haibun
light or long,poetry-prose can be fun

senryu,kigo kireji
the cutting word..is the key...

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Prize how you feel with thoughts that sum;
Opt finesse here with words that spring;
Etch what you will as feelings come;
Match pain and cheer with surge and fling.
Seek a sure tell in verses scripts clear;
Keep a true heart that primes good zest;
Expect to dwell on what...

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Here with fond wit
Opt cheer to fit
Move joy's fine bits


Etch a true style
Apt that grand smile
Thrill sparks worthwhile


Make time for space
Ink words of grace
Dream syncs this place


Treat works that tell
Old touch greets spell
Wise worth glimpse well


Now and here note
Peace brings warm tote
Ends meet brisk vote


Near...

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footsteps
   in the streets -
echos of distant youth 


I think
so I paint,
I imagine and pen-
mix in a hiku
to make
a haiga-like zen
...

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