Tag: haibun
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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…
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#Haikai Challenge #47 (8/18/18): autumn near (aki chikashi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
You endured the fire and bore witness, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Dwight L. Roth 2. Pat R 3. Reena Saxena 4. Jules @ Strands 5. deepa 6. Revived Writer 7. Janice 8. Deborah Gomez 9. Jules @ Strands #2 10. Frank J. Tassone 11. Linda Lee…
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Performance Announcement (8/17/18)
I plan to perform at Rockland Poets’ August Open Mic at SVH in Suffern tomorrow night (8/18/18) 7PM to 9PM. If any of you live in the Hudson Valley region of New York, this is the poetry performance experience that you have been looking for. Don’t want to perform? No problem! Come out and enjoy…
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An unreceived Present
still pond agape in every moment … when will we quiet the chorus in our heads? How can it be? How can Love be present, and waiting only for the asking? How can the Presence be such a gratuitous gift? Impossible! And yet, I have tasted the gift, and seen without seeing. I can still…
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First Loss: A #ThrowdownThursday #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
The sky-blue Teddy bear towered over me. Charcoal eyes and nose, friendly smile: my parents nestled me in its arms. Mom told me how much I loved that Teddy. One day, the window of my room, which looked out on a sewer grate, opened during a storm. Wet leaves, mud and soaked mulch buried…
Frank J. Tassone 