Blogs about: Waka

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hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: A spring hokku by Bashô — not a good one, and out of season at present, but useful in illustra … more →

Tags: hokku, spring, Haiku, Basho, Shiki, Haikai, Irises, Hekigodô, Traditional Haiku

AND WHO WAS MUNEFUSA?

hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: The early hokku of Bashô (or rather of Munefusa, as he was known before he took that writing name) a … more →

Tags: Basho, Haikai, Haiku, hokku, Onitsura, plum blossoms, rain, Toshiharu Oseko, cherry blossoms

Morning Gripe: Boys Don't Trust Girls in Co-Ed Rec Sports

kayleighokeefe wrote 3 weeks ago: The title says it all: boys don’t trust girls. I play in two co-ed adult rec leagues at the mo … more →

Tags: Softball, CEB, Kickball

Gurren Lagann

drdenorax wrote 1 month ago: I’ve allways been a fan of that series, and my head almost exploded when I found out. THERES … more →

Tags: anime, Gurren Lagann, DrDenorax

other random acts of leisure!

robeanne wrote 1 month ago: Looking back at my posts I guess you might be forgiven for thinking that all we are doing here is re … more →

Tags: nz, Coromandel, haka, Snapper, Tainui, Taupiri

Body Blog: Summer Sports Leagues Make for Fun Workouts2 comments

Noa - CU Boulder wrote 2 months ago: With the sun shining and the weather heating up, it’s hard to motivate yourself to spend an h … more →

Tags: Body, athletics, Beach volleyball, Burn Calories, DodgeBall, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, health

"Level Two"

casiella wrote 2 months ago: Exit at full speed Align to destination Activate warp drive Cruiser arrives in deadspace Our work ha … more →

Tags: Poetry, EVE Online, Ghost Outrider, Missions

Awa to miru... Waka from The Tale of Genji, chapter 13 "Akashi"3 comments

kaseumin wrote 3 months ago: Awa to miru Awaji no shima no aware sae Nokuru kumanaku sumeru yo no tsuki 泡と見る 淡路の島の あはれさへ 残るくまなく … more →

Tags: Public Domain, The Tale of Genji

Kokinshu #11 & #38

japonesque wrote 3 months ago: Moving right along in chronological order to the Kokinshu. A few from the Book of Spring. #11 はるのはじ … more →

Tags: Literature, Classical Literature, Poetry & Literature, translation, Classical, Poetry, 古文, 古語, Kokinshu

Kickball Season in Gear

Matt wrote 3 months ago: The Monument World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) division kicks into gear this Sunday, April 5 … more →

Tags: Fun, Sports, social life, washington dc, DC, Friends, Kickball, monument, flip cup

WAKA Baseball Pub Crawl

crawlinboston wrote 3 months ago: PUBCRAWL DETAILS ARE IN!!! WAKA BASEBALL PUBCRAWL SATURDAY April 4th, 2009 Spring kickball is back! … more →

Tags: Bar Crawl, Boston, Kickball, Pub Crawl

Manyōshū

via fairy wrote 4 months ago: Manyōshū (secara harafiah dapat diartikan sebagai kumpulan 10.000 daun) adalah kumpulan puisi Jepang … more →

Tags: kayoo, kanbunshi, banka, soomon, zooka, yuryaku, yoomei, saimei, tenji

More Haiku - some recent ones

pooqui wrote 4 months ago: driving in the shadows of the snowbanks oaks catch the first light   snow covering the stone chess t … more →

Tags: Haiku, autumn, winter

22. The tow rope

practiceofzen wrote 4 months ago: Three weeks ago, winter arrived in Western New York, catching some of us off guard.  I was reminde … more →

Tags: 1, Saigyo, Japanese Poetry, Mindfulness, tanka, zen poetry

WAKA WAKA!!

Evelyn wrote 5 months ago: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=v7_aYTmu8Dk =) … more →

Tags: muppets, fozzy bear

၀က2 comments

greenasterisk wrote 6 months ago: အမွန္တရားေသးေသးေလးက အမွားႀကီးႀကီးကို မႏိုင္ေသာေၾကာင့္ အိမ္မက္မ်ား မ်ိဳခ်ပစ္ခဲ့ရသည္။ (w,ka) — … more →

Tags: My Favorites, Favorite, Poem

I have fallen in love with the Japanese Tanka, or Waka, a form of poetry.

ladynyo wrote 8 months ago: I walk around during the day, counting on my fingers:  5-7-5-7-7, trying to ‘fit’ the wo … more →

Tags: Japanese forms of poetry, tanka

1835: Fijian double canoe with platform and cabin

levuka wrote 8 months ago: Lorimer Fison, in his  Tales of Old Fiji, used this undated and unreferenced image, above,  … more →

Tags: 18:00, canoes, FISON Lorimer, Levuka, Fiji, Canoe, ***

Autumn Ramblings II

Kyōshin wrote 9 months ago: This is totally irrelevant but the other day I wrote about how beautiful the trees are at the moment … more →

Tags: General, honen, Nature, autumn, Poetry


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