Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Tanka Prose: Circles and Spirals
#Haiku Happenings #1 (5/28/20): Xenia Trans’ latest #tankaprose for my current #haikai challenge!
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Stanza del Silenzio: a #haibun
“But you, when you pray, go into your inner room…” Mt 6:6 “Silence is the first language of God”, Saint John of the Cross once said. Perhaps that’s why sitting in silence always attraced me. From a pre-school age boy, spinning the wheels of his upside-down tricycle, to a pubescent boy, sitting cross-legged on a…
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Lockdown Poetry 15
Originally posted on Cafe Haiku: Cafe Haiku is doing a series on haiku, haibun, tanka or related styles on the subject of the Wuhan virus lockdown which is now daily life for most of the world as the virus spreads to alarming proportions. A big thank you to all those who contributed to this effort…
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Day Into Day
Originally posted on Heed not Steve: waiting to breathe he thinks of his youth he thinks of the war —- © Steve Mitchell 2020
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Haiku del giorno – Daily haiku
Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Pinterest ? erba d’estate … aspettando la pioggia che non arriva ? waiting for rain that doesn’t come … summer grass © A.M.
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“even as her…” a #tanka (5/27/20)
5/27/20: prompt-free even as her tape measure rattles … constant birdsongs after a morning of sitting this soar back remains #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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Disappear
Originally posted on haiku tree: dry leaves scatter on the sidewalk and disappear ?
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Today’s Haiku (May 27, 2020)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 駝鳥は天に忘れものして南吹く 大石雄鬼 dachô wa ten ni wasuremono shite minami fuku ostrich forgot a thing in heaven south wind blows Yuuki Ohishi from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, September 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo Fay’s Note: ‘minami’ or ‘minamikaze’ (wind from…
