Makoto | Kati Mohr | pi & anne
@pi-and-anne.bsky.social
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.
https://pi-and-anne.com/
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.
https://pi-and-anne.com/
I wish doctors would listen more closely to those that are 24hrs around a patient at home, having a great sense of what's out of character, and be open & clear about the diagnostic process. The latter helps to deal with the helplessness so many caregivers experience.
#tanka #sequence
#tanka #sequence
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"art of tanka" issue 5 by Pamela Babusci has landed on my doorstep, and look, there's one of my tanka inside!!
Forgive me
that I possess only
the heart of a child,
turned towards shadow play,
unblinded by the light.
—Makoto
#tanka #artoftanka #poem #published
Forgive me
that I possess only
the heart of a child,
turned towards shadow play,
unblinded by the light.
—Makoto
#tanka #artoftanka #poem #published
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"art of tanka" issue 5 by Pamela Babusci has landed on my doorstep, and look, there's one of my tanka inside!!
Forgive me
that I possess only
the heart of a child,
turned towards shadow play,
unblinded by the light.
—Makoto
#tanka #artoftanka #poem #published
Forgive me
that I possess only
the heart of a child,
turned towards shadow play,
unblinded by the light.
—Makoto
#tanka #artoftanka #poem #published
Alan, you bring out the best in me. It's a pleasure, always, to see your work as an editor. You're a true sensei.
Here is my second #haiku in #PanHaikuReview issue 6:
Women,
made ghosts,
foxglove.
—Makoto
2/2
Here is my second #haiku in #PanHaikuReview issue 6:
Women,
made ghosts,
foxglove.
—Makoto
2/2
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Alan, you bring out the best in me. It's a pleasure, always, to see your work as an editor. You're a true sensei.
Here is my second #haiku in #PanHaikuReview issue 6:
Women,
made ghosts,
foxglove.
—Makoto
2/2
Here is my second #haiku in #PanHaikuReview issue 6:
Women,
made ghosts,
foxglove.
—Makoto
2/2
#PanHaikuReview issue 6 is out and about!! Happy I've got two little #haiku nuggets included, shaking the sun from the tips of wet pine needles so to say 😌.
my summer lake
. . . of tiny moustaches
or fishtails . . .
—Makoto
1/2
my summer lake
. . . of tiny moustaches
or fishtails . . .
—Makoto
1/2
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#PanHaikuReview issue 6 is out and about!! Happy I've got two little #haiku nuggets included, shaking the sun from the tips of wet pine needles so to say 😌.
my summer lake
. . . of tiny moustaches
or fishtails . . .
—Makoto
1/2
my summer lake
. . . of tiny moustaches
or fishtails . . .
—Makoto
1/2
And finally a found #haiga that made it into #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i... . Yay!
more clearly, along the shores a lot of weight
—Makoto
more clearly, along the shores a lot of weight
—Makoto
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
And finally a found #haiga that made it into #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i... . Yay!
more clearly, along the shores a lot of weight
—Makoto
more clearly, along the shores a lot of weight
—Makoto
Here's my sequence from #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
Longer forms and sequences are a joyful splash in the desert of my day, hope you enjoy it too ❤️
Longer forms and sequences are a joyful splash in the desert of my day, hope you enjoy it too ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Here's my sequence from #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i...
Longer forms and sequences are a joyful splash in the desert of my day, hope you enjoy it too ❤️
Longer forms and sequences are a joyful splash in the desert of my day, hope you enjoy it too ❤️
Happy this #senryu found a good home in #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i... ! Big thanks to the editors Pippa & Orrin ❤️
the fiend inside
how you
name it
—Makoto
the fiend inside
how you
name it
—Makoto
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Happy this #senryu found a good home in #PruneJuiceJournal #47 prunejuicesenryu.com/2025/11/30/i... ! Big thanks to the editors Pippa & Orrin ❤️
the fiend inside
how you
name it
—Makoto
the fiend inside
how you
name it
—Makoto
strapless
her seeds
pearled barley
—Makoto
#completethehaiga 127 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka
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her seeds
pearled barley
—Makoto
#completethehaiga 127 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka
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November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
strapless
her seeds
pearled barley
—Makoto
#completethehaiga 127 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka
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her seeds
pearled barley
—Makoto
#completethehaiga 127 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka
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November 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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!
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
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!
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!
just like any one in four schoolroom corners
—Makoto
#senryu #oneline #singleline
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—Makoto
#senryu #oneline #singleline
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November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
just like any one in four schoolroom corners
—Makoto
#senryu #oneline #singleline
open.spotify.com/track/0aV5uA...
—Makoto
#senryu #oneline #singleline
open.spotify.com/track/0aV5uA...
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There are two images here juxtaposed, the wren, the teeth clenched in a fist. That's juxtaposition. What deepens the ma though is ... why 28? What happened overnight? Why is the wren breathless? Who fucking knows?!
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
There are two images here juxtaposed, the wren, the teeth clenched in a fist. That's juxtaposition. What deepens the ma though is ... why 28? What happened overnight? Why is the wren breathless? Who fucking knows?!
You have here an autumn kigo, no kireji. 1 scene, 1 phrase, 2 different objects. What makes it weird is the action (shaking) & the number (seven). Yes, it's a juxtap., but so much deepened. A bottle & magpies CAN coexist in a park. But shaking it, & SEVEN magpies? Well. That's where the ma is.
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
You have here an autumn kigo, no kireji. 1 scene, 1 phrase, 2 different objects. What makes it weird is the action (shaking) & the number (seven). Yes, it's a juxtap., but so much deepened. A bottle & magpies CAN coexist in a park. But shaking it, & SEVEN magpies? Well. That's where the ma is.
This is a wild conglomeration of musical allusion, a real image (basketball, sports) and a mental state. The kireji is borrowed from music, and as important to this as choice of layout. I know this leans heavily towards senryū, but for me it's a summer kigo, playing basketball outside.
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a wild conglomeration of musical allusion, a real image (basketball, sports) and a mental state. The kireji is borrowed from music, and as important to this as choice of layout. I know this leans heavily towards senryū, but for me it's a summer kigo, playing basketball outside.
I don't have a real kigo in there, and I don't have a real kireji, and two images juxtaposed? Not sure. It reads like a diary entry with something important crossed out... but there is a ton of ma. The crossed out horse mane alludes to an emotion of wildness tamed.
October 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I don't have a real kigo in there, and I don't have a real kireji, and two images juxtaposed? Not sure. It reads like a diary entry with something important crossed out... but there is a ton of ma. The crossed out horse mane alludes to an emotion of wildness tamed.
March 2020.
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
March 2020.
Trauer, Angst, Wut. —January 2020.
Grief, Fear, Anger.
Grief, Fear, Anger.
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Trauer, Angst, Wut. —January 2020.
Grief, Fear, Anger.
Grief, Fear, Anger.
January 2020.
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
January 2020.
December 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
December 2019.
November 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
November 2019.
October 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
October 2019.
October 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
October 2019.