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Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne
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Tanka/Haiku/Senryū

Touchstone Award '24, Marlene Mountain Memorial Award '23 (2.)

She has a Lego mini figure set of her inner demons & collects heart-shaped stones: She likes that a lot. Then she throws them into water & waits. 

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Pinned
Currently finishing a big project, a #tanka #novel. A book-long tanka #sequence. A novel in fragments. Proud of having pushed through, of following what feels right.

#book #release end of '25.

Realising,
at a late noon breakfast,
that my poems need to be
a mountain lake to go
ballistic.

—Makoto
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with unclean hands
i cling
to the gods

— nara takeshi

#senryu
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
By Tom Gauld.

Haha, yes. Don't compare! Do your thing! Honour your own labour! Get better 'cause you want to! Just write!

My #book #Don'tWriteAboutTheMoon will be available in bookstores soon!! It's a looot of #tanka. Over 200 of them. In a book-long sequence. And there will be a #giveaway :D!
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Have we completely forgotten about the #powerofkindness in interaction? (Not asking for a friend, but for me, and on behalf of humankind.)
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reading up on #haiku #techniques & poetic devices again.

open.substack.com/pub/forgotte...

Good input! Once in a while I need to remind myself why and how they are used and also the broad range of misunderstandings that laid the ground & changed the whole course of English haiku. 1/2
Haikai & Haiku—A Short Introduction Part 2: Kireji
Issue #2: With Hokku by Bonen
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
just like any one in four schoolroom corners

—Makoto

#senryu #oneline #singleline

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November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A fairywren,
fleeing from
the great bushfire,
without a moment's thought
or any song left.

—Makoto

#tanka #bushfire

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Small Talks
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November 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
he she it them

—Makoto

#senryu #concretepoem #concretepoetry
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Joy Harjo
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reasons Not To Take Someone's Pain Seriously
. . . . . . . . . . . .

a woman or a child mentally ill and tea stains

even stitches on a crumbled cotton wide field—

giant elephant tracks on English lawns

titles honours and the common rest the case

—Makoto

#senryu #sequence
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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only if you have
new ways of owning
the world

#senryu
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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🖤 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗡: 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗢𝗞𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗞𝗨 🖤
It's finally here! My brand new collection of #haikai featuring 200 #haiku written between 2008-2019, and edited earlier this year. Paperbacks and ebooks available now! www.amazon.com/dp/1991310501

#poetry #poems #poem #hokku #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Cover reveal! Yup. Another book, and this time it's a book-long tanka sequence. Read more about it on my blog!

pi-and-anne.com/2025/11/06/o...

#book #coverreveal #tanka #tankasequence #tankanovel
Oops. I Did It! A Book-long Tanka Sequence.
Nauseating amountsof cherry blossomsin my mouth,I hold my breathand turn blue. * On the verso ofthe child moon,mapping outapologies . . . * Crocuses crocuses crocuses,this preposterous growth—a spr…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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dandelions
at the speed of
the local train

--Maya Okuzaka

たんぽぽに普通列車の速さかな 奥坂まや

#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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sooner or later
they will come for you
wriggling maggots

— Deborah Karl-Brandt
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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walking home
in my hand the coolness
of an apple

#senryu
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Rachel Newling

Australian Flowers:
Blue Waterlily

linocut on handmade
Japanese paper
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Here, a stone.
Eight arms twined
around, and still,
he doesn't
touch me.

Hier, ein Stein.
Von acht Armen
umschlungen,
und doch berührt
er mich nicht.

#tanka #poem

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In The Waiting Line
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November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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warm thanks to @charlieulyatt.bsky.social for sending his chapbook
July 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Confluence October Issue 13, 2025 features Colleen M. Farrelly.

There are two favorite poems of this awesome writer I want to share

snow angels
they find her lying
on her park bench

haunted basement a sock ghosts the washer
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@manuelbianchibooks.bsky.social talks about my book of tanka 'etwas mit federn'/'something with feathers'!! Thank you so much, Manuel, so glad you like them 🤗

youtu.be/nS8V7G309U0?...

#review

If you fancy watching & hearing my #tanka in German: you can use subtitles for transl. if necessary!
Urbane Lyrik - Das Magazin, Folge 8: Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie
YouTube video by Manuel Bianchi
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October 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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parsley pieces
on the counter—watching more
"Forensic Files"

#senryu
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Just insufferably blank pages—
—ethnic cleansing.

Makoto

#senryū #PJJournal #prompt05 #prompt
Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #genocide (with or without the word in your senryu)

What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...

Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 05
#WritingCommunity
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM