O. Préjean

so with the help of Gemini AI, Im going to reduce my social media usage to Twitter and Bluesky. News, Politics/Policy, and social commentary via twitter and move all my poetry to Bluesky. Gemini suggested I close down my Threads. Ima give it a try. Here's my Bluesky.

tonight watching him remove those tight jeans— on this night i lie with a married man #tanka

@NegroSunshyne So Seidensticker would be the only major use of stress as a unit of organization. Hartmann did it also, but his work in #tanka isn't major.

@NegroSunshyne The French takeme is a stress pattern of 2-3-2-3-3, but I have not actively hunted down examples of the stress patterns. It's really no different from the suggestion of using iambic pentameter couplets -- 5 stresses per line would be 10 stresses.

@IpsaHerself @juliusorlovsky #Tanka is made up of five parts, typically written on 1 line in Japanese and 5 lines in English. Experiments are done with other numbers of lines.

@NegroSunshyne There are very few #tanka as well known in English as the classical Japanese ones, so it's important to give credit to the original when doing so.

choosing tanka, drinking tea with a flat chamomile taste #senryu

on this pre-apocalyptic day on hands'n knees scrubbing a stubborn floor #tanka

@Circa1981AD It had a large impact on my understanding of #tanka -- how the Heian tanka poets who lived through all this tuned it out on purpose. They wanted idealism and escapism.

@Circa1981AD Hojoki is an astonishing record. It's the antidote to all the romanticization of the Heian period.

#tanka wisdom from my mentor, M. Kei

for a moment standing in the glare of a car's headlights deep in thought #tanka

@hinduaesthetic @elektrotal there’s a Hindu goddess in my timeline slowly I grow happier and the February night doesn’t seem so cold #tanka #micropoetry

beauty of that man's Black skin— the afternoon moves with a studied slowness #tanka

leaving all the washed pans out on the counter i simply go to bed #tanka

today at Pearl Harbor brief thought about a world that was young and impressionable #tanka

always wanted a home with stone lions at the entrance #tanka

flush of red on his cheeks from exertion in the kitchen washing dishes #tanka

@john34239 Oh, that wasn't mine. You are referring to: Today at Pearl Harbor, From the shore line, At highest tide, A gossamer mist, With the deepest stillness. Hagino Matsuoka #tanka #5lines

@john34239 This reminds me of a #tanka by John Daleiden: mourners assemble after Joe’s funeral— they come to pick widow Green’s apples and press out the amber juice John Daleiden, from Fire Pearls vol 1 #FRPL #5lines #micropoetry

@NegroSunshyne in the stars I can trace the contours of your body and all the glowing pieces I wish to touch Sean Greenlaw Atlas Poetica #tanka #micropoetry