Tag: haibun
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#Publication Alert: Haibun Today: A Haibun & Tanka Prose Journal
Happy to again appear in Haibun Today 12:1 March 2018! Thank you, Ray Rasmussen! Frank J. Tassone Montebello, New York, USA Breathless Vanity Mom never left the house without looking immaculate. She would put on makeup, style her hair, and wear the best outfit just to pick up a carton of cigarettes. Even when I…
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Arise Again: a #tankaprose
Moonlit sea power of a changing tide shaping the surf insight born of suffering perseveres the longest I awaken to the song of surf on turf. The remains of my latest wreck surround me. I can remain prone for the sea to drown me. Or I can stand and take one step. Then…
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The Burning Bush: a #quadrille #haibun
Image: KEVIN CARDEN / LIGHTSTOCK.COM A fire engulfs it, but the bush does not burn. How? Curiosity, from this pharoa’s son-turned-murder, shepherding fugative. I draw closer. A presence from the fire, none I’ve known, yet all I’ve ever known, calls my name. Holy ground sandals and sheep set aside for…
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#Senryu Saturday (2/24/18) #haibun #senryu #poetry
Coffee-making Mayhem “Did you pour water?” As gasping sounds emerge from the coffee maker… “Why wouldn’t I?” a quick check of the machine anyway… Reveals a coffee-maker filled with coffee. But not water. “Fool of a man! Less poetry, more coffee-making!” As a hastily-added caraf of water pours into a…
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#Haikai Challenge #22 (2/24/18): Barely Spring (haru asashi) #haiku #senryu #haiku #tanka #haiga #renga
photo courtesy of pixel Thank you, haijin! Thirteen of you took time to smell the rose: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty 2. Vivian Zems 3. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 4. Merril D. Smith 5. Jules 6. Petru J Viljoen 7. Xenia Tran 8. qbit 9. Jilly 10. Revived Writer 11. rick…
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#Free-style Friday (2/23/18): A #writephoto #haibun from .@ImageCurve
Empty Gestures Nothing left to offer but the rain sunset on the Ramapo Mountains not a drop falls more by FRANK J. TASSONE photograph by Frances Gunn first published in Image Curve, May 4, 2017 republished here for Sue Vincent’s #writephoto Thursday prompt–2/22/18 UPDATE: for dverse poets…
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#Throwdown Thursday (2/22/18): My latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve
Arboreal Awakening 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 over the deck basking…
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Their Awakened Voice: A #Tanka Tuesday-on-a-Wednesday #tankaprose…#haiku #haibun #poetry
Alan Alvarez, Independent Florida Alligator Their Awakened Voice rising from the dust another generation speaks truth to power from where else will progress come than those that struggle to change? Young high-schoolers saw their friends die. They aged beyond the years in heartbeats measured against the scatter of automatic fire. But they…
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