Author: Frank J. Tassone
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Haiku: Enchanted Forest
#Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Trans’ latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
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Angle
Originally posted on haiku tree: angled shadows bend the trees sunset ?
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turn turn turn
Originally posted on K.: Every year fall foliage surprises us with its clichés. Fibers yellow on the edges, becoming brittle and brown. Scarlet fire burns itself into a colorless ash. Memory preserves the departed colors, waiting in darkness. We have been to this place many times before and yet still it catches us, wheeling us…
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Momiji Fire
Originally posted on awisewomansjourney: Written In Response To: Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #107 (10/510): fall foliage (red leaves(momiji)). Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to foliage (red leaves (momiji)). dawn of foliage red leaves awaken heart’s beat blood burns Autumn’s fire ~ * ~…
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O Francis: a #tankaprose #Ekphrastic #ode
What was it like, Francis? To experience the wounds of Christ? How did you do it? You were another noble-aspiring Merchant’s son, fighting for Assisi in another of the Italian city-states endless wars. Was it the illness you endured during your captivity? Did that brush with death open your eyes to the Truth? How did…
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Mercenary
#Haiku Happenings #9: Reena Saxena’s latest #haibun!
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Today’s Haiku (October 8, 2019)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 日本語の違う父と娘夜長かな 宮崎斗士 nihongo no chigau chichi to ko yonaga kana different kinds of Japanese spoken by father and daughter… autumn long night Toshi Miyazaki from “Sonna Ao” (That Kind of Blue), haiku collection of Toshi Miyazaki, Rikka Shorin, Tokyo 2014 ?
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reflections (haibun)
Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: 31,479 hours and still counting… 31, 479 hours to date, she has picked up the phone or sat at her desk replying to youths on the world wide web. She wonders how many hours one has to work before they start seeing pink rabbits and blue dinosaurs… purple…
