Anticipation, or: Presentiment

Poetry Partners #172

‘Anticipation’, a tanka by Destiny of ‘Destiny’s Designz’

anticipation
breathes disconsolateness
intentionally
fractures fictive fantasies
yet still- we found lost in dreams

Destiny’s Designz: https://destinysdesignz.wordpress.com/

A tanka by ben Alexander of ‘The Skeptic’s Kaddish’

presentiment
resents sober reasoning
mental clarity
must needs be relentlessly
taunted- torn to little bits

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–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

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23 thoughts on “Anticipation, or: Presentiment”

Hi David 🤍

Sorry if this sounds weird 🥴but even after searching various sites, I’m confused about the haibun. Some read like a story with a haiku at the end and some don’t.
How does it work please? 🙏

The current prompt: do we write different verses contrasting or include the contrasting element in one verse?
Do we write on a personal experiences/thoughts, objects, situations etc?
Sorry for the bother 🙈
Prompt sounds very interesting but I haven’t tried this form before🥴
Sorry for the long message and thank you.

ben Alexander February 22, 202317:07 Reply

it’s very flexible, Destiny!

You can write as little as a few lines of prose and one haiku (at the beginning or end), or you can write longer prose and intersperse it with multiple haiku… it’s really up to you.

And the contrasting element can be included anywhere!

❤
David
1. Destiny February 22, 202317:09 Reply
  
  Thanks so much, David. Appreciate it🙏