Month: March 2023
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Unrelenting
An assignment. Then two, then many: The “to do” list grows, a field of weeds in bloom. The hours available to meet such responsibilities dwindle before their demand. I plunge foward through the maelstrom, only to be born away. The refrain of a familiar Billy Joel song ever playing in my head… crysalis the striving…
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“South Fallsburg…” a #tanka (3/27/23)
3/27/23: we can’t go back South Fallsburg the remains of the Pines Hotel another reminder of how we can’t go back #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (3/27/23)
3/27/23: scribble swallow song a toddler’s scribble in the sandbox #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (3/24/23)
3/24/23: padlock nightfall across the junkyard gate a rusty padlock #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Today’s Haiku (March 23, 2023)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): よき旅をしたる思ひの朝寝かな 村越化石 yoki tabi o shitaru omoi no asane kana ??????????? feeling as if I had ??????????? a good trip ??????????? sleeping in… ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Kaseki Murakoshi from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:?? Kaseki Murakoshi (1992-2014)? “asane” (sleeping in) is a…
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Haibun because
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: This morning, I am drawn back to writing that book I said I never would. Reluctantly, I chip away at it like a cack-handed sculptor with clumsy tools, attacking a lump of ancient stone, torn from its roots, embroidered with lichens and microscopic flowers. Why? The stone is already…
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CH Micro Haibun – star sign
Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: Micro Haibun by Richa Sharma Marriage Shifting my chair in the sunlight, I ask for one more day before the farewell. There is this simple wish to once more savour the warm peepal breeze of my childhood house. star signpointing away fromyour picture
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My Daily #Haiku (3/23/23)
3/23/23 low tide the existentialists still ponder #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 