Tag: Discover Prompts
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A #Na/GloPoWriMo2025 Reprise of “Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun”
The questions of how to begin and what to think are matters for one’s own heart to resolve. Of oneself, for oneself – you must be your own teacher. Sen No Rikyu An ever-twilight, midsummer wood, save for the towering, lakeside Pines and the Cherry blossoms. A meadow in the midst of this floral menagerie,…
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An Encore of “This #Corona: a Day 10 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #Hay(nu)ku #sonnet”
sunlight … passing clouds and sudden flurries this Good Friday only streaming Stations quarantine living our novam viam crucis folly those people slighting this #Corona this “Mask of the Red Death“
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Ascension Testament: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #ultimate #haibun
On the day of my ascension, gratitude! Thank you, mentors and teachers, friends and enemies, mountaintop and desert moments. Thank you, Immanuel, for walking the whole way with me. wind an eagle soars On the day of my ascension, praise! to you, red rocks of Sedona; Grand, Bryce and Zion Canyons; You, Animus, Susquahana and…
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Total Second-to-lasts: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #TankaProse
Graduation day precedes final report card pick-up. The “Last Dance” at Senior Prom precedes some final melody. A roll of thunder follows a lightening strike–before the last flash of the storm. A parry during a fencing match lands before the ultimate riposte. How these penultimates eclipse the end! dogs, fish, lizards, mice … that heartbreaking…
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Travel Reminiscence: On ASW ‘19 Travel Notes (7/17/19): a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun
Shelter-in-place. Curtailed flights. Masked ambulations. “The New Normal” of “New York Pause,” and its sister terms in other states, confine us to save lives. It’s easy to stir against that confinement. But as the last songbirds vie for their territory with every note, I recall travels this past summer, and again feel free. sights and…
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Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun
The questions of how to begin and what to think are matters for one’s own heart to resolve. Of oneself, for oneself – you must be your own teacher. Sen No Rikyu An ever-twilight, midsummer wood, save for the towering, lakeside Pines and the Cherry blossoms. A meadow in the midst of this floral menagerie,…
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Transformational Mindfulness: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun
Breathing in the wind on the water. Breathing out the weariness from a weight of cares. Breathing in, wind on water. Breathing out, weariness. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe. passing rain suddenly, pink and white blossoms
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Through Darkness into Light: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #TankaProse
They say you have to embrace the darkness to discover the light. They say. What do they know? I could show them darkness. The inky new moon night that encloses me like the walls of the womb. The Mese Verde tunnel, scraping my head and shoulders, through which I crawl like a babe forced through…
Frank J. Tassone 