gendai – Frank J. Tassone

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O Wine! (a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 solo- #renga #ode)

By Frank J. Tassone on April 24, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

In hoc genimine vitis es óperis mánuum hóminum O, fruit of the vine vitis Vinifera Cuius culmen in How ebullient, you grapes boistrous in the summer sun What a fools errand believing you a native of other soils How you grew on the mountains saddling two continents How […]

Of Love and Hate: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 mock-translated #Gendai – #Haibun

By Frank J. Tassone on April 21, 2020 • ( 10 Comments )

Can love and Hate occupy the same relationship? Or is a Greek God’s pursuit of a nymph the same lust for power humanity has indulged for millenia? As though Dapne had a choice. As though Apollo allowed her one. qui tamen insequitur pennis adiutus Amoris,⁠ocior est requiemque negat […]