Category: haikai
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#Haiku (11/22/23)
11/22/23: cliffs a flight of geese… remembering “The White Cliffs of Dover” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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To My Unlived Birth Identity
“Hello Darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk to you again…” Paul Simon Dear Jamie, for how else shall I address you? You, who’ve lived enshadowed in me A name, sealed away by state authority and memory Only a legal error informs me of you How has it been this life lived through dream…
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#Haiku (11/21/23)
11/21/23: coral reef when the last coral reef dies… mourning sound #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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“you scribble…” a #tanka (11/20/23)
11/20/23: scribble you scribble a note of love passing it on a wisp of the north wind blowing between us #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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A Novel Thanksgiving
This year of change continues. Having sold our home of nineteen years, we announced to the family that we’re not celebrating Thanksgiving this year. While our 1500 square-foot apartment is spacious enough, it’s not structurally accomodating for hosting the thirty or so we expect for the holiday. Our niece, who lives ten minutes drive across…
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#Haiku (11/20/23)
11/20/23: bird nest left behind after a flight robin eggs #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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To Life: “the Rescue”
I ache from the blaster volley. The Beskar held. More importantly, the kid is alright. We watch the figure in black together. He slices through dark trooper after dark trooper with a cold precision I’ve never seen. His emerald laser sword deflects blaster bolts with ease, and cuts through armor like it’s not even there.…
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#Haiku (11/18/23)
11/18/23: wasp nest bad wager… a can of raid versus a wasp nest #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 