Tag: haibun
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#Publication Alert 1/30/18 #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my latest haibun The Danger of Poetry appears in the Product Poet’s latest Paper!
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The danger of poetry: a #quadrille #haibun…#haiku #poetry
Photo by David Klein on Unsplash You were wise to banish poets from your Republic, Plato. We are dangerous. Watch us puncture your pious certainties with our clever turns of phrase. Ring your hands as we wordsmith creation. Shudder as we shatter your worshipped lies. poetry — our all-consuming wild truth
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#Haikai Challenge #18 (1/27/18): Raven #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #renga #haiga
unsplash-logoTyler Quiring You soared to new heights with last week’s kigo! We had a record number of submissions to the hawk #haikai challenge! A special shout-out to Jane Dougherty for her record-high seven hawk haiku in a single week! 🙂 Here are your haikai: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jane Dougherty 2. Reena…
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/25/18): my lastest #haibun on .@ImageCurve… #haiku #poetry
Such Monotony Another day. Students to nudge to work or be silent, while others teach. While I remain voiceless… Another day. IEPs to write. The implications of the difference to face. Between where I am, and where the report indicates I ought to be… Another day. Already a…
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A Katana’s Lament: a #Tankaprose…#tanka #haibun #poetry
What? You expected gratitude? That you forged me of steel in the hottest flames? More than two-hundred folds to ensure my density? Sharpened my edge so that, in a master’s hand, I could slice through bamboo in a single stroke? Then you ignored the wisdom of the old master: “Weapons are unhappy tools…” barren…
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A History (and Legacy) of Handwriting: a #haibun about script…#haiku #poetry
Second grade. I follow the exercises in the book. Up and down, up and down, up and down. Then the next set: round and round and round again, left to right on the lines across the page. All to accomplish handwriting the alphabet in script. first penmanship … watching outside our window a…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/23/18): The joys of bronchitis…#feature #haibun
Wondering why I haven’t posted anything of my own since Saturday? Well, it began as a cough. It expanded to chronic, and by Saturday I needed to cancel my performance at Rockland Poet’s January Open Mic (at least I wasn’t the feature!). Chronic became incessant by Sunday. I took off yesterday and today before…
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Life of a Poet — Frank J. Tassone
Check out my interview in Poets United! #haiku #haibun #tanka #senryu
Frank J. Tassone 