Month: April 2025
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Number-essence
one day the temperature dropping from Spring to winter Two times waiting for rain to lighten up Three old guys around a teacher’s room lunch table talking all the shit you can imagine four seasons although who can say five fingers to count off the ways this ends
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#Haiku Happenings #2: “Today’s Haiku (April 10, 2025)
HH #2: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Naoki Kishimoto!
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#Haiku (4/10/25)
4/10/25: National Siblings Day diving crow a townhouse too far from her sisters #haiku #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (4/10/25): “Enchanted Garden Journal” by Neena Singh
HH #1 (4/10/25): Neena Singh’s latest #haiga, #tanka, and #haiku appear in Enchanted Garden Journal!
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#Haiku (4/9/25)
4/9/25: National unicorn day Spring sunset the Unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters #haiku #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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Amor Linguae
As if it could be any other way… Savoring the sublime through language experiencing the true through language Feeling the heart race at the right word a pulse flutters at such uttered language exhausted yet engaging lyricality beholden to the subtlety of language Delightful to listen to the silence as though that isn’t the first…
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#Haiku (4/8/25)
4/8/25: National Zoo Lover’s Day city night sounds Simon and Garfunkel’s “At the Zoo” #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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Coleridgian Contrast
not the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” No wedding guests to mesmerize, nor grand stories to tell… no Albatross around my neck breaking dawn I’m no bane of goodwill birds, doomed to watch friends die… no grandiose dreams of Elysium living Just another wayfarer on the road to anywhere, soon to seek the way back…
Frank J. Tassone 