Month: April 2025
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Musical Nostalgia
Asia’s original Album. Heat of the Moment. Only Time Will Tell. Without You. Playing in my walkman on the road, and my boom box at home. 5th grade. My introduction to modern Rock n Roll. young blood the enthusiasm for progressive Rock The tracks playing again in Pogoville, the Camp Marist cabin for the oldest…
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#Haiku (4/30/25)
4/29/25: Poem In Your Pocket Day / 4/30/25: National Bubble Tea Day half-drunk bubble tea beside a crumpled poem from your pocket #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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A #Na/GloPoWriMo2025 Reprise of “Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun”
The questions of how to begin and what to think are matters for one’s own heart to resolve. Of oneself, for oneself – you must be your own teacher. Sen No Rikyu An ever-twilight, midsummer wood, save for the towering, lakeside Pines and the Cherry blossoms. A meadow in the midst of this floral menagerie,…
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A farewell to Pretty in Pink
Hello, new friend. I did not know you long. Not like my beloved Maple Tree, whose shade protected my deck during the searing summer months. Technically, you’re not even my tree, as you stand on my neighbor’s front yard. But your luscious cherry blossoms brightened these last two Springs. Sure, you bloomed late this year,…
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“nightfall…” a #tanka (4/28/25)
4/28/25: streak nightfall crossing the sky a streak passing meteor or an eyeglass stain #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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#Haiku (4/28/25)
4/28/25: Kiss Your Mate Day twilight lovers end their day with a kiss #haiku #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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Mortal Victory
Revolutionaries know courage is its own reward a martyr smiles, open armed, his stygmata facing his murderers bearing the light in the encroaching darkness as distant torch-bearers look on The Madrilene has failed in all except nerve But his boldness is his victory Inspired by Franscisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808 (1814)”
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#Haiku Happenings #2: “The Weight of Ancestry” by Kerfe
HH #2: Kerfe’s latest #haibun for #dVersePoetsPub!
Frank J. Tassone 