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#11 Haikuish sahimi tataki ktanka

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

101a Restless night — / even the snow clouds / went elsewhere (have fled)
101b Wind in the elm / tree — I pray for / baby orioles
101c An oriole nest swings to / & fro — under the elm a child / blows out a candle
101d The moon waxes / behind clouds — mice / work the fields
101e I add a word; you / delete it — the pile / of copies grow
101f They are so serious / in their pain — I hold / onto old scars
101g The laughter of new / students — I clutch poems written / when they were born

104a I cannot find you! / I wake from nightmares — / time to pee
104b Yesterday the wind / blew away tears — today / the sun dries them
104c Here a dog sleeps / on the street — memories / of my years in Kansas // At home a man asleep on the street
104d Sun melts Mt. Sentinals snow The houses' windows are open
104e I sit by an open / window — so many miles / between us // yet under the same moon / we are both guests (this lifetime)

Quirky poem breaks... on the original notepad page

105a It rains on / the mountain — it rains / on the river // Black umbrellas / osprey fish
105b The young man / stopped and smiled at me — / flower-of-an-hour
105c Sun warms the dreamer's / days — the moon casts beams / on my nightmares
105d Soon the lilacs / bloom — the snow- / drops wither
105e Chatter below / my open window — a warm / breeze enters

108a On the day a child dies you mourn — how few the days mayflies gather
108b Along the paths / burrs wait / for the dogs
108c Nothing dies that / doesn't live... if / but for a moment
108d Bridge over a trickle / of water — when will / the floodgates open
108e Two dozen holes — one / small head pokes out / brown bodies scurry
108f Buttercups lose / their petals — biscuit root / stretches for the sun
108g In some distant / land — cherry blossoms / falling
108h Pinching new sage — / fragrance of yet another / autumn to come

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From Wikipedia on WAKA:

Katauta 5-7-7 One half of an exchange of two poems; the shortest type of waka

Chōka 5-7-5-7-5-7...5-7-7 Repetition of 5 and 7 on phrases, with a last phrase containing 7 on. Mainly composed to commemorate public events, and often followed by a hanka or envoi. Numerous chōka appear prominently in the Man'yōshū, but only 5 in the Kokinshū.

Tanka 5-7-5-7-7 The most widely-composed type of waka throughout history

Sedōka 5-7-7-5-7-7 Composed of two sets of 5-7-7 (similar to two katauta). Frequently in the form of mondōka (問答歌 "dialogue poem") or an exchange between lovers (sōmonka).

Bussokusekika 5-7-5-7-7-7 A tanka with an extra phrase of 7 on added to the end

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