Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #34 (5/19/18): Passing Spring (yuku haru) … #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Staying Dry, haijin? I hope so! Honestly, I had no idea how prescient my kigo of last week would be! No matter the precipitation, however, you came through! Congratulations, contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Xenia Tran 3. Jane Dougherty 4. Reena Saxena 5. Victoria Slotto 6. Dwight…
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Arboreal Awakening: A #ThrowbackThursday (5/17/18) .@ImageCurve #haibun
BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND FEBRUARY 2018 The far maple, where I once hung Frankie’s tire swing, blooms. The maple beside our deck, the one with moss growing up its split trunk, arises from its winter slumber, too. We will enjoy another warm season with these old friends. tiniest blossoms bowing its lowest branches…
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Steller Joy: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #tankaprose (5/16/18)
“Mary, full of grace,” so did the angel proclaim But what victory did you contemplate gazing upon the milky way? Is there a moment more sublime? Lao Tzu counseled those troubled at heart, whom thought the universe agitated, to look out at the stars. I followed his advice many nights. Too often, I strained…
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Second Anniversary: A #SenryuSaturday #TankaProse
December 24, 2011 Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Liz call me. They thought about me today. I knew the anniversary was coming, but I forgot it was actually today. I had memorialized my father’s anniversary in haibun. The ones I’d written for Mom remain in my handwritten journals, which I’ve yet to type up and…
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#Haikai Challenge #33 (5/12/18): Spring Rain (harusame)/Autumn Rain (aki no ame) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Hello, haijin! You took time to hear the birds twitter! Congratulations to all contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Dwight L. Roth 3. Jules 4. Jane Dougherty 5. Linda Lee Lyberg 6. Zander 7. Xenia Tran 8. Jules #2 9. Revived Writer 10. Janice (Ontheland) 11. Caitlin 12. Revived…
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Osiarian Relics: A #FreestyleFriday (5/11/18) #writephoto #haibun
See where standing stones fell. Witness the last embrace of Earth by two fallen Tuatha De Danann. Shed your tears on their cold granite corpses, sheltered by some cosp of oak and maple. Nothing more can you hope to do for them, you sons and daughters of Celts. Your ancestors hungered for new…
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Essential
ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES “In the beginning was the word…” Logos. The essence of consciousness, the embodied will of creative Love, from which the universe began with a Big Bang. An utterance of voice so tender and loving that potential gave birth to actual. A voice so awesomely heartbreaking, and heard now…
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#ThrowdownThursday (5/10/18): Another Mother’s Day?… my latest .@ImageCurve #haibun
Another Mother’s Day? Mom washed, curled, brushed and hairsprayed. Then she applied makeup and lipstick. For the first time in weeks, she looks like she always does when she goes out in public. She loses her breath rising from one chair and moving to another, despite the pulse-births of oxygen from her portable…
Frank J. Tassone 