Author: Frank J. Tassone
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“swaying line …” a #tanka (7/1/20)
7/1/20: #62 PROMPT– butterflies for happiness and consolation swaying line of a wind-blown spider’s web yet among the lillies flittering butterflies #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Langtang ~ a haibun
Originally posted on Mindfills: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/screenshot_20200630-1355075187190876576679927.png wafting pine incence ~mirage * Deep-fried apple pie. The lady who made it on a pine wood fire will come looking me. I was hallucinating. Tiny arrows of icicles ricoched off everyone’s parkha and stung my cheeks. Rarefied air crusted the mind at 17000 Himalayan feet. We’d been walking, crunching…
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COVID-Escape
Originally posted on veredit-iertes by Isabella Kramer: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/lago-maggiore-11-738.jpg COVID Escape unexpected visita neighbor’s catbreaks the rules escape in my gardenthe flapping of butterfly wingsnothing more hawthorn blossomsdrunken beesenjoy their community the earth isn’t roundenough to escapeour own race small fishesand no swarmthat protects us bunny ears and maskseaster greetingsfrom the neighbors Isabella Kramer first published…
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three haikai verses
Originally posted on weird laburnum: lemon-scented hospital beds how they hold our hands as blackbirds * in silence stones in an arc of dawn to dusk * too late the politician’s conscience Alan Summers
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My Daily #Haiku (7/1/20)
7/1/20: trees July firstfresh mulch surroundingthe young dogwood #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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July
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: timeof daylilies and hostaJuly flowersbegin to formearly July with all the wayslife can changestill they bloomevery yeardaylilies and hosta Photos by Karl from last year: https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/img_1771.jpg July 18, 2019 https://frankjtassone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/img_1810.jpg July 29, 2019
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2020 5th Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Senryu Contest Winners
Originally posted on Prune Juice Journal of Senryu & Related Forms: First Place: the lingering notesof an out of tune pianoburying grandpa — Louise Hopewell Second Place: lockdown lovingthe surprise of wildnose hairs — Roberta Beary Third Place: chemotherapyshe takes a selfie withthe new wig — Minal Sarosh? Read all 2020 honorable mentions and judges’…
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Prune Juice: Free Download to Get You Going
Originally posted on Alexis Rotella's Blog: Ten years ago I started the senryu journal Prune Juice (publisher Modern English Tanka Press). At the time, haiku journals weren’t publishing many senryu (sister form to haiku that focuses on human nature). As I do with many projects, I pass them on to other caretakers. Happy to say…
