Tag: Haibun Today
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A Quart-milk Container Bird Enthusiast
It is a pretty bird. An Arts and Crafts instructor at Woodland camp showed us how to make them out of quart-milk containers. She dips papier mache wrapping into different colored dyes to make the foliage. Then she wraps the papier mache around the container. She walks around the paint-splattered tables in the cavernous, beige-painted…
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#Wayback Wednesday (3/28/18): Dreaming Dad from Haibun Today
Dreaming Dad You come with us to a picnic ground. Scattered cottonball clouds float across a blue summer sky. Lush, green grass feels soft under our feet. Maple and birch trees enclose the area. We sit at a weathered picnic table splintering with age. You wear your cream short-sleeve shirt, khaki shorts and those worn,…
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#Publication Alert: Haibun Today: A Haibun & Tanka Prose Journal
Happy to again appear in Haibun Today 12:1 March 2018! Thank you, Ray Rasmussen! Frank J. Tassone Montebello, New York, USA Breathless Vanity Mom never left the house without looking immaculate. She would put on makeup, style her hair, and wear the best outfit just to pick up a carton of cigarettes. Even when I…
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#nahaiwrimo #1 (2/6/18) #haiku #HaibunToday
2/6/18: cutting the lawn fresh clippings a longing to again hear his complaints from “Mowing and Remembrance”, HT 11.4 12/17 #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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#Throwdown Thursday (2/1/18): My latest is up on .@ImageCurve…#haibun #haiku
My latest #haibun in up on .@ImageCurve! #haiku #poetry
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Mowing and Remembrance…a #haibun for #dversepoets
The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely have bent by now. As I muster the will to use it, I imagine Dad riding it once more.…
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#Publication Alert (12/2/17): Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today! #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my haibun Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today, December 2017, v.11, n.4! Mowing and Remembrance The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely…
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