Tag: haibun
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A Vernaltide Warning of my Vices and Virtues: A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) #TankaProse
Photo by Henry Be on Unsplash “On a hot, summer night: would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” –Meatloaf Warning: Do not awaken my favorite vice. For lust will pulsate through my trembling arteries with every quickened beat of a suddenly hungry heart. Do not let me imagine all of…
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Near-Sabbatical Elegy: a #tankaprose
Almost seven years I still hear you telling me, “grass is getting tall!” whether backyard or kitchen you knew how to work your space The family still talks about the prime rib dishes you brought to cousin Lisa’s house Christmas after Christmas. Aquaintences I meet on the street still boast about your old restaurant.…
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Gather Foolish Minds: A #Quadrille #haibun
Gather, foolish minds! Never mind the fool saying, “Mind over matter. I don’t mind, so you don’t matter.” Gather, you poets! Enscribe in fresh language that madness we call wisdom. So gathered, we foolish minds shame the wise! fired feast our dionesian wine awaits for dVerse Poets Quadrille…
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Unsurvived Life
“One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche “You’ve been living in a dream world.” –Morpheus, to Neo; The Matrix I didn’t survive the second birth certificate. They killed me with official typeface and fresh signatures. Now, I live—shadowed within a new name. The un-memory of my only bottle feeding by my…
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Coyote monologues Narcissus: a #TankaProse
Don’t look at me like that! Geesh! The first time you tear your eyes away from that pond in forever, and it’s to give me an attitude? Look, I’m a culture hero. I pulled a Prometheus, and stole fire from the sun for humanity. I practically raised the Crow myself, and I even…
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#Haikai Challenge #30 (4/21/18): Earth… #Haiku #Senryu #Haibun #Tanka #Haiga #Renga
No sooner did we celebrate warmth than another cold spell enveloped the Northeast! Nevertheless, Haijin, you bore witness to the inevitable turn toward spring (at least in the northern hemisphere). Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. lynn__ 3. Dwight L. Roth 4. Jules 5. Jane Dougherty…
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Rebel Treatment: a #FreestyleFriday #sonnet #haibun
photo by michael baumann, flickr starlight listening to the frogs croaking Revolutionary Hudson river The Dutch named your greatest width Tappan Zee. Your waters ever a generous giver, bearing fish and trade goods down to the sea. How many shots Red Coats and Patriots trade along your vast and everstretching shore? How many…
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These Triumphs
The echo of applause from their standing ovation after his first speech ever. crescent moon MC’ing the Court of Honor with honor
Frank J. Tassone 