Author: Frank J. Tassone
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The Burning Bush: a #quadrille #haibun
Image: KEVIN CARDEN / LIGHTSTOCK.COM A fire engulfs it, but the bush does not burn. How? Curiosity, from this pharoa’s son-turned-murder, shepherding fugative. I draw closer. A presence from the fire, none I’ve known, yet all I’ve ever known, calls my name. Holy ground sandals and sheep set aside for…
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#nahaiwrimo #3 (2/26/18) #haiku
crow caw along the twisted path of a holy fool #haikuchallenge (fool) #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Home | Africa Haiku Network
#Haiku Happenings #9: check out the Africa Haiku Network! H/T: Petru. Africa Haiku Network is Africa’s most prestigious haiku community. A network that stretches from West Africa to Southern Africa and North Africa. A blossoming community of African haiku poets. — Read on africahaikunetwork.wordpress.com/about/
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Today’s Haiku (February 26, 2018)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 父逝くやとぶらふ山の狼も 米田清文 chichi yuku ya toburau yama no ôkami mo Father passed away— a wolf in the mountain mourns, too Kiyofumi Yoneta from ‘Kakyô” (‘Home Country’), a haiku collection of Kiyofumi Yoneta, Furansu-do, Tokyo, 2017
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Haibun: A Glimpse of Spring
#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!
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#nahaiwrimo #2 (2/26/18) #haiku
2/26/18: beach changing tide … only the cry of sea gulls in a shore breeze revision 1: changing tides … sea gulls cry in the wind revision 2: changing tides … cries of sea gulls in the wind (hat tip James W. McRight Jr. for the suggested edits) #nahaiwrimo #myhaikupond #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Two haiku
Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Andrew Wyeth dusk – what is done is done *** white sheet – at the sound of rain quieter the night ? © A.M.
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Originally posted on the other bunny: Sadly the pepper dies. The debate that follows leaves the olive oil upset. Six days follow w/ no dawn – so it’s like, twelve nights, for those keeping score. Although painful we scoop the debates into tiny supermarket trollies. Defining us as hunchbacks the debates make it hard for…
