58 words.

Year of the Snake Contest entry. August. 931 words. Trigger: #3: Denial of Death; #6: A Personal Name. Gloss: Aysus Mariosep: ‘Jesus, Mary, Joseph.’ An expression in which one takes the holy family’s names in vain. Kuya: ‘older brother.’ Honorific.

It's a three part poem, the first half is inspired from the tanka from Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology which also inspires the situation for which the poem takes place in. The second half is inspired by Albert Saijo and his writing style. The last part shows the life he has now after his catharsis Word count: 72

Triggers for September: 1. fast relief from pain 2. you know it can’t hurt you 3. an unsafe place to be 4. each small piece of me 5. like shifting into overdrive 6. so fearless 7. nothing but compassionate 8. no more seconds minutes hours days weeks years From “IF NOT CIVILIZATION THEN WHAT”: I…

From BR #70: Triggers for September: 1. then there would be much laughter 2. we have no strength left 3. the night was the longest 4. I did not see them 5. a little angry and a little frightened 6. his bitterness knew no end 7. we need to know more 8. what is she…

my "prosetry" born too late…another time another place my heart longs…August entry

Year of the Snake entry for August. An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. 500 words. For TK.

From Issue 67/68:           “For the past twelve centuries, the Japanese people have expressed their intense pent-up emotions in tanka, one of the most unique and shortest forms of poetic expression in the world. Most Japanese samurai wrote jisei (deathbed tanka) at the site of their hara-kiri. It was natural for many hibakusha to write taka…

From “Kona Glitter, 1964: A Ghost Story,” by Kobai Scott Whitney . . .           For the life of me, I can’t remember what word we used for “hunk”in 1964. It seems to me that hunk did not appear until the 70s or 80s and that the girls of Kona Waena High in 1964 must have…

August already, and our contest enters its fourth year. This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write. The triggers for this month are lines taken from the following two texts. Find them here: Issue Number 67/68, OUTCRY FROM THE INFERNO: ATOMIC BOMB…