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  1. CW: Political Poetry

    Night's Feast

    ••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

    cutting sugar cane
    the unwritten history
    of my ancestors

    Midnight machetes
    Judicious desserts

    ••⋅☾ #WakaPoetry / #Tanka ☽⋅••

    By @extraspecialbitter and @NaraMoore

    #NMPoetry #Political #PoliticalPoety #Poetry

  2. CW: Political Poetry (Hungary)

    #ViktorOrban April 2026

    ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••

    Spoiled goulash
    With hillbilly bread
    Devil’s chef
    Common weed field
    Smile at the sun

    ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #PoliticalPoetry #Hungary

  3. College students play
    volleyball and beer bong
    barely clothed

    Rituals ancient and new
    where the sea meets beach and dune

    A man o' war, washed
    ashore, venomous but dead
    A Laughing Gull smirks

    A murder looking on
    Territorial battle

    @MarkBrigham @extraspecialbitter
    @stevendbrewer
    #haiku #renga #RengaThis #PoetryOnTheFly #WakaPoetry

  4. Weekly #RengaThis Apr. 7-12

    Fruiting plum
    Late-season blooming
    Urban harvest

    • #Renga #連歌 (linked poetry) consists of poets composing alternating verses of 5–7–5 and 7–7 beats or morae (not syllables).
    • One poet begins with a 5–7–5 verse, followed by another poet’s 7–7 response.
    • Additional poets may then join, continuing the alternating 5–7–5 and 7–7 pattern.

    #Haiku #WakaPoetry #和歌 #NMPoetry #poetrycommunity #Poetry @extraspecialbitter @MarkBrigham

  5. The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝

    #HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
    Reign of Di Xin of Shang

    #Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation

    Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense hid the scent of heated bronze.

    Below her, Zi Zhen passed
         hands bound
             casting an imploring look up at her.

    She smiled, reciting:

              Dongting
              Reflection glories
              Humble carp
              In evening dimming
              Gasps not singing [Note 1]

    Note 1: The humble man, mistaking passing glory for reality, dies as he was born

    Commentary: Daji was the favorite consort of Di Xin of Shang the last Emperor of the Shang dynasty (Reign 1075–1046 BCE). Legend has it that Daji delighted in executions carried out with a pào lào (roasting pillar). The condemned person was forced to embrace a bronze tube filled with coals. Zi Zhen is a fictional character.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #和歌 #WakaPoetry #NMPoetry # #poetry #History #ChineseHistory

  6. The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝

    #HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
    Reign of Di Xin of Shang

    #Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation

    Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense hid the scent of heated bronze.

    Below her, Zi Zhen passed
         hands bound
             casting an imploring look up at her.

    She smiled, reciting:

              Dongting
              Reflection glories
              Humble carp
              In evening dimming
              Gasps not singing [Note 1]

    Note 1: The humble man, mistaking passing glory for reality, dies as he was born

    Commentary: Daji was the favorite consort of Di Xin of Shang the last Emperor of the Shang dynasty (Reign 1075–1046 BCE). Legend has it that Daji delighted in executions carried out with a pào lào (roasting pillar). The condemned person was forced to embrace a bronze tube filled with coals. Zi Zhen is a fictional character.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #和歌 #WakaPoetry #NMPoetry # #poetry #History #ChineseHistory

  7. The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝

    #HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
    Reign of Di Xin of Shang

    #Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation

    Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense hid the scent of heated bronze.

    Below her, Zi Zhen passed
         hands bound
             casting an imploring look up at her.

    She smiled, reciting:

              Dongting
              Reflection glories
              Humble carp
              In evening dimming
              Gasps not singing [Note 1]

    Note 1: The humble man, mistaking passing glory for reality, dies as he was born

    Commentary: Daji was the favorite consort of Di Xin of Shang the last Emperor of the Shang dynasty (Reign 1075–1046 BCE). Legend has it that Daji delighted in executions carried out with a pào lào (roasting pillar). The condemned person was forced to embrace a bronze tube filled with coals. Zi Zhen is a fictional character.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #和歌 #WakaPoetry #NMPoetry # #poetry #History #ChineseHistory

  8. The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝

    #HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
    Reign of Di Xin of Shang

    #Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation

    Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense hid the scent of heated bronze.

    Below her, Zi Zhen passed
         hands bound
             casting an imploring look up at her.

    She smiled, reciting:

              Dongting
              Reflection glories
              Humble carp
              In evening dimming
              Gasps not singing [Note 1]

    Note 1: The humble man, mistaking passing glory for reality, dies as he was born

    Commentary: Daji was the favorite consort of Di Xin of Shang the last Emperor of the Shang dynasty (Reign 1075–1046 BCE). Legend has it that Daji delighted in executions carried out with a pào lào (roasting pillar). The condemned person was forced to embrace a bronze tube filled with coals. Zi Zhen is a fictional character.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #和歌 #WakaPoetry #NMPoetry # #poetry #History #ChineseHistory

  9. The Passing of Zi Zhen 子真之逝

    #HistoricalFiction #ShangDynasty #China c. 1040 BCE
    Reign of Di Xin of Shang

    #Wss366 Railing #WritersCoffeeClub April 2: Visual presentation

    Daji watched from the #railing of the Peacock Terrace. Below, the fire cast a ruddy tint on her fair features. Incense hid the scent of heated bronze.

    Below her, Zi Zhen passed
         hands bound
             casting an imploring look up at her.

    She smiled, reciting:

              Dongting
              Reflection glories
              Humble carp
              In evening dimming
              Gasps not singing [Note 1]

    Note 1: The humble man, mistaking passing glory for reality, dies as he was born

    Commentary: Daji was the favorite consort of Di Xin of Shang the last Emperor of the Shang dynasty (Reign 1075–1046 BCE). Legend has it that Daji delighted in executions carried out with a pào lào (roasting pillar). The condemned person was forced to embrace a bronze tube filled with coals. Zi Zhen is a fictional character.

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #和歌 #WakaPoetry #NMPoetry # #poetry #History #ChineseHistory

  10. The snow is melting on contact, but the early plum and sakura are having a hard time keeping up with our seesawing weather.

    ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••

    Beaten plum
    Bedraggled Spring
    Snow melt
    On fragile delight
    All softly falling

    ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #poetry # #Haiga #俳画 #PoetryOnTheFly #Photography
    #マストドン写真部 #写真
    #urbanphotography #都市写真
    #Spring #Plum #Rain #NMPoetry #FloweViewing
    # # #花見 #

  11. #Dog #Dreams

              ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
    Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    In Dogwood’s bark
              ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    Days Shadow
    In a Dogwood’s
    Hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #DogsOfMastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry

  12. #Dog #Dreams

              ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
    Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    In Dogwood’s bark
              ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    Days Shadow
    In a Dogwood’s
    Hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #DogsOfMastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry #NMPoetry

  13. #Dog #Dreams

              ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
    Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    In Dogwood’s bark
              ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    Days Shadow
    In a Dogwood’s
    Hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #DogsOfMastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry #NMPoetry

  14. #Dog #Dreams

              ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
    Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    In Dogwood’s bark
              ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    Days Shadow
    In a Dogwood’s
    Hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #DogsOfMastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry #NMPoetry

  15. #Dog #Dreams

              ••⋅☾#ものく☽⋅••
    Moonbeam reflected in #dogwood’s hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#Monoku☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#片歌☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    In Dogwood’s bark
              ••⋅☾#katauta☽⋅••

              ••⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅••
    Moonbeams
    Softly reflected
    Days Shadow
    In a Dogwood’s
    Hallowed bark
              ••⋅☾#WakaPoetry☽⋅••

    #DogsOfMastodon #PoetryOnTheFly #Poetry

  16. #WritersCoffeeClub 1/11. Name a poem (or poet!) which has influenced you.

    I write classical waka because of: Murasaki Shikibu

    •───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
    Heian flower
    Vanished bloom
    Noble heart
    Inkstone Washi
    Living again

    #WakaPoetry #ShortPoem #NMWCC #NMPrompts #PoetryOnTheFly #NMPoetry #NMPoetry

  17. Lest the Moon Blushes 月も赤らむほどに Part 2

    #Wss366 #PIXIVCharitySanta

    [Continued from previous post]

    Before answering, Shishi took an object from a bag at her feet. "I would like to learn one more transformation. It's something that would make Ume happy."

    “What is it? Oh, a book. Let me see it.”

    "I found it in a bookstore. It’s from the Edo period,” Shishi explained. “Look.”

    Maiyoi held the book up to the moonlight and ran her fingers across the cover. "It's faded. Wait, I have it! It's an etiquette guide. Whatever do you have in mind? Does Ume like strict mistresses or is it librarians?”

    Shishi laughed. “Neither of those. I might like a strict mistress, but Ume wouldn’t. Let me do this. I want to surprise you both, you now and Ume Christmas morning. Is it okay if I learn to do possession tomorrow?”

    “Oh, ho, ho. Do you think you can learn that in one night? But we can start tomorrow. I would be a fine #excuse of a teacher if I wouldn't help my student make her lover happy. Let's begin. Face the Big Dipper.” Maiyoi wrapped her arms around Shishi and slowly spun her to face the constellation. “But beware, lest you make me too jealous, though. Listen,”

              Lest the moon
              Glimpses pool ruffles
              Envies the wind

    Shishi laughed and kissed Maiyoi’s cheek and replied,

              Ruffled pool
              A moon worshiper
              Yet wind embraces

    "Such cruelty!" Maiyoi cried, laughing. "I should snatch the wind with my teeth, lest it steal the pool from me."

    “Fear not. The moon will always be in my sky, even if the wind embraces me.”

    "Now watch, Sensei," said Shishi, placing the book on her head.

    "Pray and visualize what you want to become," Maiyoi instructed.

    The change was slower this time, but when Shishi turned to face her teacher again, her face had changed to that of a young European woman, and her clothes…

    “An Edo maid. So that’s Ume’s weakness,” Maiyoi cried, clapping.

    “Maids and idols. She can be quite the otaku.”

    Other Maiyoi stories - PIXIV
    Other Maiyoi stories - AO3

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Kitsune #Otherkin #WakaPoetry

  18. Lest the Moon Blushes 月も赤らむほどに Part 1

    #Wss366 #PIXIVCharitySanta

    "Let's see what you remember," Maiyoi told Shishi.

    Maiyoi was in her part-human form, complete with cute, fluffy ears and three tails. She wore her signature purple kimono adorned with stars and comets.

    They were outside Maiyoi’s new shrine. When the kitsune saw it for the first time, her initial reaction was, “Just wait until Ota-san hears about this! In time, he’ll understand.”

    Between that and being reunited with Shishi—as her student, no less—she was still beaming.

    She removed a fox skull from her kimono and held it out to Shishi.

    Shishi refused it with a smile. "You'll be so proud. Just watch." She closed her eyes, concentrated, and her form began melting. As she shrank, her hair first turned a mild ginger and then a rich golden amber. It ran down her back and arms, replacing the warm clothes she was wearing. Her face became pointed, and sharp teeth replaced her normal ones. Before long, a fox stood in the moonlight where a human had stood.

    Maiyoi clapped, capering around the transformed girl.

              Bondage shy
              Russet leaves fly
              Wilderness
              A moonlit sky
              My kit and I

    Having shown what she could do, the fox began morphing again. This time, she became a human with fluffy ears to match her friends' and a single bushy tail.

    Maiyoi grabbed her hands and, still dancing, sang:

              Sister dear
              The moon quite pale
              Sakara tints hales

    Not to be outdone, Shishi finished the katauta:

              Sensei love
              Swallow proud
              Now, to you, bows

    Maiyoi switched back to prose, still gushing. "The moon should blush at my student's skill. To think the swallow mastered that so quickly! Should we move on to possession or something easier, like making kitsune gold?"

    [Continued in next post]

    #TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #Kitsune #Otherkin #WakaPoetry

  19. 狐、弟子をほむ

    Kitsune in praise of her disciple

    •───⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅───•
              Bondage shy
              Russet leaves fly
              Wilderness
              A moonlit sky
              My kit and I

    #Kitsune #WakaPoetry #ShortPoem #Fox # #HiakuFeels #NMPoetry

  20. For Harry Trueman

    •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•

    A buckle
    Now lost in time
    Vague memory
    A gift from a brother
    He to vague memory

    •────⋅☾#Waka☽⋅─────•
    Copyright 2025 Do not use in AI

    #WakaPoetry #和歌
    #poetrycommunity
    #NMPrompts #Wss366
    #Memorial #追悼碑

  21. Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
    Monoku & Waka & Katauta

              •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

    Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
    讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

              •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
    Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
    題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

    Wild hill
    Evening flowers
    Too soon frost
    Petal dropping
    Morning dew forgot

              •─────⋅☾片歌☽⋅─────•

    A cool hand
    Your gentle touch
    Bedtime fever

    You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

    私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

    一読は割とエッチです。

    © 2025 Nara Moore

    #WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry # #poetrycommunity
    #Flowers # #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever # #熱病
    @poetry

  22. Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
    Monoku & Waka & Katauta

              •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

    Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
    讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

              •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
    Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
    題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

    Wild hill
    Evening flowers
    Too soon frost
    Petal dropping
    Morning dew forgot

              •─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•

    A cool hand
    Your gentle touch
    Bedtime fever

    You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

    私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

    一読は割とエッチです。

    © 2025 Nara Moore

    #WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry # #poetrycommunity
    #Flowers # #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever # #熱病
    #NMPoetry

  23. Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
    Monoku & Waka & Katauta

              •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

    Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
    讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

              •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
    Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
    題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

    Wild hill
    Evening flowers
    Too soon frost
    Petal dropping
    Morning dew forgot

              •─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•

    A cool hand
    Your gentle touch
    Bedtime fever

    You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

    私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

    一読は割とエッチです。

    © 2025 Nara Moore

    #WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry # #poetrycommunity
    #Flowers # #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever # #熱病
    #NMPoetry

  24. Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
    Monoku & Waka & Katauta

              •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

    Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
    讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

              •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
    Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
    題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

    Wild hill
    Evening flowers
    Too soon frost
    Petal dropping
    Morning dew forgot

              •─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•

    A cool hand
    Your gentle touch
    Bedtime fever

    You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

    私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

    一読は割とエッチです。

    © 2025 Nara Moore

    #WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry # #poetrycommunity
    #Flowers # #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever # #熱病
    #NMPoetry

  25. Thoughts on Fever (発熱への思い)
    Monoku & Waka & Katauta

              •─────⋅☾#ものく☽⋅─────•

    Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets You with Single Flower
    讃岐天満宮が一輪の花でお出迎え

              •─────⋅☾#和歌 ☽⋅─────•
    Title: Sanuki Tenman-tennō Greets a Flower
    題 : 讃岐天満宮、花を迎える

    Wild hill
    Evening flowers
    Too soon frost
    Petal dropping
    Morning dew forgot

              •─────⋅☾#片歌☽⋅─────•

    A cool hand
    Your gentle touch
    Bedtime fever

    You can take what you want from my katauta; one reading is rather ecchi. But it was about how cool a hand feels when you have a fever. Lol

    私のカタカタから好きなものを取ってくれて構わない。でも、熱があるときの手の冷たさについてだった(笑)

    一読は割とエッチです。

    © 2025 Nara Moore

    #WakaPoetry #和歌 #poetry # #poetrycommunity
    #Flowers # #Mortality #死亡 #必滅 #KonbiniIdol #HaikuFeels #Senryu #川柳 #Tanka #短歌 #Monoku #katauta #Fever # #熱病
    @poetry