Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #53 (9/30/18): Anniversary: Favorite Kigo-of-the-Year #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Who among you savored their harvest, haijin? Many, from the looks of things. Congratulations, last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Reena Saxena 3. The Dark Netizen 4. Deepa 5. Jules @ Strands 6. Pat R 7. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 8. Helene Vaillant 9. Revived Writer…
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Prelude to a #SilentSaturday: a #PSA #haibun (9/29/18)
Mira and I enjoyed a good day with our nieces, newphew and great-niece at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival in Saugerties, New York. Mira and her sister sampled everything they could get their hands on. Vania and Michael foraged constantly for the best hot food among myriad vendors. We walked the length and breadth…
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Memorial Light and Shadow: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
What do I remember of her? Straight brown hair, sky-blue eyes and tapered cheekbones? Her love of horses? My head swimming when she smiled? What don’t I remember of her? Our walks in the woods of Douglas Park? Or awkward moments under the bleachers? Or our times together in the rush of pouring rain? I…
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Seasonal Transitions: a #TankaTuesday #tankaprose (9/25/18)
Autumn the decline of energy inspite of effort these soon-to-color leaves become ready to fall Another season turns. Katydids lengthen their calls, then stop. Crickets continue, softer, more subdued. And yet soon an early Autumn chill yields to a remnant of summer heat. Only for a moment that passes all too…
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#Haikai Challenge #52 (9/22/18): harvest #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
How was the stargazing, haijin? Many of you savored the stars! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. The Dark Netizen 4. Jules @ Strands 5. Revived Writer 6. Jules @ Strands #2 7. lynn__ 8. Helene Vaillant 9. Deepa 10.…
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Seen and Unseen Apple Trees: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
I see the apple tree. It’s dark-gray and brown, ridged bark, with Y-shaped branches splitting upward like outstretched arms from its knotted trunk. Its leaves fill every branch. The 2 x 4 Dad and I nailed onto the trunk below the split, so Frankie could plant his foot to climb it. I see him in…
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Oedipal Complex
Attic cup: Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE; in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome. Album/Oronoz/SuperStock How did you miss the signs, Oedipus? You, for whom the riddle of the Sphinx held no fear? How did you overlook the evidence that…
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Tai Chi Logos: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (9/18/18)
sunrise the potency, the power of the tree of life listening to the word everlasting One more sunrise. One more bright ray to shatter the predawn darkness. One more ascent breaching the horizon. One more. One more sunset. One last ray before the coming twilight. One descent like a bowing courtier before…
Frank J. Tassone 