This crazy cowbird has been dancing on my window sill for the past four day or more. He sees himself in the glass and fluffs out his feathers to show he is boss. He does it most of the day. Once in a while he goes to the feeder to eat and comes right back. If we chase him away. He comes right back. I think he must be a little neurotic! This is my Haikia for Frank Tassone’s poetry challenge using the word warm.
Silly Little bird
Still strutting across my window
Mirage in clear glass
Emotions rising with warm spring
Runway sill for strutting ‘round
Narcissistic bird
Never tires of mirrored face
Loves his own image
Can’t seem to get past it
Perhaps warm hormones now flow
Self-indulgent bird
Where are your fine feathered friends
No future staring at one’s self
No warmth to be found in glass
No sweet feathered mate appears
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Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Written for Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge using the word warm as our prompt.
#Haikai Challenge #29 (4/14/18): warm (atataka)…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
*This is the first edition of this crazy cowbird…
https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/cowbirds-lament/
Love these shots and the accompanying verse😊
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Thank you Belinda. I did a video also, but my free site won’t let me post it.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #12: Dwight’s latest #tanka sequence for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thanks Frank. This is all new to me. I am still trying to figure out the difference beteween tanka and haikai. The only difference I can see is the break between the haiku and the next two lines. This was my source of information: https://www.nakasendoway.com/haikuhaikai-poems/
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Haikai has evolved into a name for the family of Japanese poetry that includes tanka (five lines in the earliest), renga (collaborative poetry written in sequences of three and two lines in the earliest translations), haiku (three lines in the earliest translations) and Haibun (prose or prose poetry, accompanied by haiku). Wikipedia has a decent primer, if you’re interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikai?wprov=sfti1
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Thanks Frank. I have been reading up on the different styles, just needed a clarification of your interpretation.
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Anytime, Dwight. The Haiku Foundation offers a lot of resources, as well.
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I love this Dwight! I too, have birds sit on my windowsill and peer in at me while I sit at my desk writing.
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Insn’t it a hoot! He comes back every day for a few hours.
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Enjoyed it from beginning to end with even a giggle at some of the lines.
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Thank you!
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You totally deserve this… your blog is unarguably 1000 times better and cooler than mine! You’re an awesome photographer by the way!
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Thank you for your kind comments. I simply share what I see and experience each day. Perhaps a little aged past history helps as well!
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Seems your crow is perhaps under some enchantment?
I have raven, crackle, tri and bi wing color crow at my feeder.
Only a few times have some smaller birds (never crows or their kin) ‘crashed’ into my ‘picture’ window.
They fall stunned on the porch roof below it. And after a rest -fly away.
As for renga…I know one is suppose to tag team them… but I write the whole verse myself. But then I’ve always been a rebel with following any instructions.
I’ve bookmarked your place. Seems you have some water in your yard too… I have a creek at the far end of the back yard. A wonderful place to sit – if it ever does warm up (this year). Cheers, Jules
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Thank You Jules… He is till here. Today is cloudy and he can see himself very well. Now he is actually flying up and flapping against the window. He seems to like to see us active inside as well! There is a big storm coming this afternoon, so I imagine he will seek shelter.
I am new to the various terms in Japanese poetry. You are right about the renga. They say a little Saki adds to the tag team effect creating a rather raucous poem in the end! What I thought was a Haikia turned out to be a Tanka!
Oh, well I will figure it out as I go.
Thanks for your interesting and helpful comments and for reading my posts.
Dwight
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I use this site to help me count:
https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllable_counter/
I think they may also have some poetic definitions.
Being the rebel that I am I also combine short forms… possibly in ways that was never intended. But that’s being creative, isn’t it? 🙂
I can do quite a bit of different short forms, but Limericks escape me. Meter is not my strong suite.
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Thanks for the syllable page. I usually do ok with them . I love to do limericks when I can get them to flow.
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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/glossary-of-forms-poetic-terminology-and-literary-devices/
This page helps with some forms. The home page has a prompt for every day of the week. I do not do all of them – But enough.
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This is a great definition site. According to the definition, what you do is solo renga!
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I have a longer verse site too… I created
acrosTics…. like this:
https://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/s-snow-an-acrostic-2-7/
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Looks good! I have a follows on it.
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I haven’t posted there for a bit, since I’ve been putting various forms at my daily… maybe later in the week. Thank you.
I try to be organized that’s why I have the daily, long verse and fiction on different sites. Though the icon just goes to the daily…
WP used to let you switch (easily to which site you were writing on) but during one of their many changes that stopped.
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I don’t want to alarm you Dwight, but that bird thinks it’s a film star, and I don’t need to tell you in which film…
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LOL, I think you are right. We just had a severe thunder storm pass through and he is still here! Crazy Bird!! He must be mentally challenged!
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What happens if you open the window? Maybe that’s not a good idea though…
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Ha Ha! I thought about that, but we did not want to clean up the mess if he got loose in the house!
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Good point 🙂
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I like how your tanka pick up both the humour in the situation and your concern for this feathered friend.
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Thanks. He was something else!
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