Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Breadth
Originally posted on Heed not Steve: sunset – our kitten attacks her own tail —- © Steve Mitchell 2020
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My Daily #Haiku (7/31/20)
7/31/20: age summer rainthe age of innocencelong over #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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gogyohka for summer pause
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: such a feeling of completion when the meadow returns in a froth of white lace above yellows and purple pinks blues and tender greens ? scars of haymaking washed away in the flowing tide of vegetation hay bales slump rooted by climbing tendrils of more growth ? spring is…
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fragments of a tune ~ senryu
Originally posted on rivrvlogr: fragments of a tune a body manifested with each measured note This poem is inspired by Pablo Picasso’s “Girl with a Mandolin” and is in response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #146: Cubism, which asks us to explore cubism. Image source: Wikipedia – Girl with a Mandolin, by Pablo Picasso
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waterfall – – monoku
Originally posted on Ontheland: synchronizing my fluidity becoming a waterfall . . https://youtu.be/Qo3OM5sPUPM . . synchronizing my fluidity becoming a waterfall . . ©2020 Ontheland The poem reads as one continuous line on a screen that is wide enough. It is a one-line haiku or ‘monoku’. Haikai Challenge #149 – waterfall The video: three hours…
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Covid-ku
Originally posted on Xanku: Dinner with best friends Such a normal thing to do And yet so strange In wet summer air How to judge humidity: How damp is the mask Early dog walkers Smiling at me with their eyes. My glasses fogged up. Three haiku from the 31 Haiku for July series, pulled for…
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Michael G. Smith Thomas Merton
Originally posted on Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond: Thomas Merton took a fifteen-day trip to the northern California coast and high New Mexico desert in May 1968. He hadn’t spent much time away from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky during the previous twenty-six years. However, his books were bringing more people to…
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Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: ? sundown glow on cave walls ochre-limned palm prints ? Mark Miller ? ?