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KARENKRO
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Xennial Texas-born Afro–Louisiana Creole 🤘🏾⚜️navigating Self and Life.
tanka/senryu poet
Continue in SPIRIT Mama Fletcher!🤎 I am so sorry that the Courts and the Law failed you and your family with acknowledgement and reparations for the brutal White Terrorism that was leveled against you and the community of Tulsa.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/u...
Oldest living survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 111 years old | CNN
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
the land of Nod: humanity wanders aimlessly with no definition #senryu
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Behind the same desk doing the same things. Routine is a distasteful thing. At shift ends, on the same bus back to the same apartment; to sit in front of the tv watching the same programs. Another guest disrupts my dystopian reverie.

lighly praying—which god will attempt to answer

#ryubun #senryu
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
my ears feeling the winter black*

*In Chinese tradition, winter is called "Black Emperor"

#senryu
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
to a brothel sharing tea and whiskey with sex-workers #senryu
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
learning myself: this country should be distinct and diverse #senryu
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
for the devil in my chest—
ink-dark rain

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
words chosen
wearing a kimono

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
i drown in his eyes...
night moves quickly

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
after work quiet...
taste of good coffee

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
we trade no words
flowers keep their light

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
off of work—
into a dark fox-rain

#jūyojishi #14characterpoem
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
@everydaydeath12.bsky.social thank you dear poet!
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
@haikuforlife.bsky.social thank you dear poet!
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
@joypops.bsky.social thank you so much dear poet!
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
@rashonts.bsky.social thank you very much bijou!
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
entering winter—
nothing is as it was or could be

#senryu
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
my frustrations
the color of rice grains

#senryu
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
village woman—
curved back while washing
laundry

#hiraku #senryu
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by KARENKRO
New book of #haiku out now by Dick Whyte! 🖤🖤🖤
🖤 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗡: 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗢𝗞𝗞𝗨 | 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗞𝗨 🖤
It's finally here! My brand new collection of #haikai featuring 200 #haiku written between 2008-2019, and edited earlier this year. Paperbacks and ebooks available now! www.amazon.com/dp/1991310501

#poetry #poems #poem #hokku #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by KARENKRO
#俳句 #haiku #poet:Roei #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
sugaring of sap i become strong like weeds in winter #senryu
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
on a soft night, over my fourth cup of coffee; musing over hoodoo and ancestor veneration. somewhere a woman's full bodied laughter slices through the silence. now is yesterday and tomorrow.

cheap Christmas tree put up human decency out of stock

#ryubun #senryu #senryuessays
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
human's harvesting hatred—Buddha and Jesus meet for tea #senru
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
media pushing lies spilled salt glows mysteriously #senryu
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM