Tag: haibun
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Human Foibles: A #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #tankaprose #2
Bad news kicks his shoes off on a supersonic flight. He sips champagne in business class and laughs his ass off. “They still don’t get it,” he mutters aloud to no one, “Practice makes progress, but the wankers won’t even raise their arses to fart!” Meanwhile, the smoke spews more carbon into the…
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“…for Sister Earth, our Mother…” : a #TankaTuesday (8/28/18) #quadrille #writephoto #tankaprose
She clasps the afternoon sunlight in her raised arms. Then asks, “If you will not care for the earth, who will?” One deep breath: the journey begins. Dryad dream a shift in mind to resist the exploitation see the desolation and say, “no more!” for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #63 – Feel…
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#Haikai Challenge #48 (8/26/18): Causes #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Seen the shorter nights? Savored some of the cooler days? Well, haijin, many of you experienced the first fruits of the coming autumn. Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules @ Strands 4. Reena Saxena 5. Pat R 6. Deborah…
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#Haikai Challenge Announcement (8/25/18)
I feel exhausted from a night’s vigil and two days of service. My son’s Boy Scout Troop raised over $1000 in cash and several shopping carts full of non-perishable food for a nearby food pantry. More on that tomorrow, when I will post the next #haikai challenge. See you then! afternoon crickets a gentle sway…
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Autumnal Signs: a #HaikaiChallenge #tanka
late summer evening the sudden chill from an Autumnal cold Only moments ago Summer vacation begain for my latest #Haikai Challenge #47 (8/18/18): autumn near (aki chikashi)
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A Helicopter Ride at Rye Playland: A #ThrowdownThursday (8/23/18) #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
Flashing red lights. Beeping horns. Bells. I pull the bar; the helicopter car rises. I push the bar; the car drops. Up and down, up and down, up and down. Around, around, around my brother and I fly. Until the ride ends. summertime Robert and I race to the next ride first published…
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A Cowardly Lion’s Soliloquy
The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much. I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days when I saw no beauty anywhere. I…
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Acedia Mood: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse
hidden sun silence from the cicadas this Autumnal day A thirst for more than water beside a vessel more than full Still, the weight. An unseen sorrow, an ennui. Too many days in this den? Too much stifling heat or suffocating humidity? Or is it the ambitious expectations too high to meet: a new journal…
Frank J. Tassone 