Tag: AprPAD2021
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“Failure to Communicate” a #tankaprose (4/3/21) Day 3 #nationalpoetrymonth
What are you trying to tell me, you aches and pains? What message is so important? Your throbbing and sandpaper-grating sensations on my joints stiffen me to immobility. Your grating of my nerves has my undivided attention. Say what you need to say. Because the road beckons. The trail whispers on a spring breeze. Sunlight…
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The Ressurection will not be Televised: a #gembun #sequence (4/2/21): Day 2 #nationalpoetrymonth
If not for one refused homage… I have not the strength left to say another word, so the crowd shouts plenty against me. CONDEMNED the grip of guilt on the throat How crushing is this weight? BEARING THE CROSS count the number of steps before The dirt of the street mixes with the blood of…
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Perilous Introductions: A deranged #haibun #nationalpoetrymonth
falling stars all we inherit is the wind Do you imagine that you know me? Oh, you do, you do. Heard all of my stories? You’ve heard enough, I’m sure. Just another trickster, right? Stealing the sun from the Great Spirit? Tricking a white man out of his clothes? Gambling his wife away to his…
Frank J. Tassone 