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Xennial Texas-born Afro–Louisiana Creole 🤘🏾⚜️navigating Self and Life.
tanka/senryu poet
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politics--
forty five minute stroll downtown

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
paper winter in Novemberwatching ¨Sean Combs: The Reckoning¨ #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
going to bed finally...day remains in the lower 30s #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
with the change of weather sniffles and congestion and... #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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over mint tea collusion with myself in a quiet flat #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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vault of a clear sky tonight i live on borrowed time #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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naked in bed reading and rereading Shonagon and Shikibu #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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morning street brawl ignoring a stone Jesus #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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though the smile´s big
he´s full of fetid waters

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
Zora Neale´s warnings dicing onions while remaining covered #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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enjoying boneless fish the side of my intuition a bit dull #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
remnants of yesterday wanting to plant crimson camellias #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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infamy coming my shadow aloof toward me #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
rise and fall of Puffy reclaiming my posture my dignity #senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
ライバルが面を外して飲んでいる
My rival drinks with his mask set aside

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
鏡には美形水には魔女の性
In the mirror a beauty; in the water a witch’s nature

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
陽は高し青鞜もよし花もよし
The sun climbs high—Bluestockings are fine, and flowers too

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
牛の背で笛吹く恋がしてみたし
I want a love like playing a flute on a cow’s broad back

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
悲しさに酔う幕切れの紙の雪
Paper snow at the final scene—grief itself a kind of drunkenness

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
地震にも煙草を吸うて居った父
Even in the earthquake my father kept calmly smoking

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
菜っ葉服着て春泥をためらわずわ
In my work clothes I stride on, unbothered by the spring mud

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
orrinonline.bsky.social
カナリヤもいてアパートの新世帯
A canary chirps in the window—newlyweds in their apartment.

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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乱れ髪恋の甘さは遠い過去
Tangled hair—its sweetness of love belongs to a distant past.

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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乱れ髪式部の世より恋は憂き
Since Shikibu’s age of tangled hair, love has been sorrow

- Kittaka Kunpū

#senryu
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Thanks! A hundred hours or more, but needed to curate the edition just so! 😀
owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 11h
Love the design and the fabulous collection of haikus in this issue. Congratulations to editor Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social
and many thanks for including my two haikus in this.

#Oulens #haiku #senryu #tanka
#blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity #poems #poetry
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM