Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Passing…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
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#Tanka Tuesday (December 26, 2017)…O Holy Night: A #tankaprose for Colleen+Kiwinana’s challenges #haiku #poetry #Christmas
(courtesy of two-chums) Cold, starry night those shepherds’ reality pierced by novel light among the singing stars they find a manger-laden babe A veil of all-to-human darkness fallen upon the world. Client-kings cater to the lock-step of Legionnaires bearing the word of Caesar. How could such a new star shine for the…
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Haiku in the Workplace
Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear once again today in Jim Kacian’s Haiku in The Workplace – ? posting a haiku breaking the tedium of another working day ? Rachel Sutcliffe Haiku Foundation Haiku in the Workplace 26/12/17 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/12/26/haiku-in-the-workplace-why-we-haiku-here/ ? ?
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Season’s Greetings
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: I know I said that this Christmas was going to be a silent, contemplative time, but it didn’t work out quite like that. We did a lot of cooking, a lot of eating, made a lot of noise, terrified the animals with silly Christmas costumes (definitely not my idea)…
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Sparkle
#Haiku Happenings #12: Janice’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
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Today’s Haiku (December 25, 2017)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): ビラ配るサンタの銀の指輪かな 吉川 創揮 bira kubaru santa no gin no yubwa kana Santa Claus handing out fliers… his silver ring Soki Yoshikawa from “Shûkan Haiku” (“Haiku Weekly”) #508, 1/15/2017 Issue, http://weekly-haiku.blogspot.com
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Haibun – Christmas, 1980
Originally posted on qbit: After college, I spent a few years traveling around Europe, picking up work here and there. In one such adventure, I worked in a shelter for homeless East End London youths. This was back when Docklands still had bombed out buildings from the Blitz and Cockney was what you heard in…
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Sweet Stars of Christmas: Haibun
Originally posted on Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings: Monday Morning Musings: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that…