Tag: haibun
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#Free-style Friday (12/22/17)…The Dark Side of Silence, encore…#haibun #poetry #haiku #Christmas
Silent Night, Silent Day Something in the way she drives. Her left hand, turned up, turned down, on and off the steering wheel. Her steely eyes, centered on the road. The 40 MPH sprints on the side streets. The utter silence. I shrink in my seat. Pity my brother, who bears this cold onslaught of…
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#Throwdown Thursday (12/21/17): my latest #haibun #poetry is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku
A Cook Against the Storm I turn on the barbeque just as a horizon-filling bank of rainclouds roll in. A sudden wind arrives. The songbirds’ ensemble speeds with urgency. I race this oncoming storm. The stakes? Our sardine dinner. rustling leaves after the rain a shimmering grill first published in Image Curve, December 21,…
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#Wayback Wednesday: Christmas bygones…#haibun #haiku #poetry
A Violent End Tension seizes my brother’s face. Tremors follow the stiffening of every muscle. His eyes widen in anger and terror. He yells and storms upstairs. I follow. We grapple in the guest bedroom, where he’d left his coat. He can’t move me; my root is too deep. I embrace him. He struggles. I…
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Relocating the Gingerbread Man: A #Christmas #holiday #haibun courtesy of .@ImageCurve
Relocating the Gingerbread Man It is a delicate procedure. One so precarious that Frankie runs from the kitchen, saying, “I can’t bear to watch in case this goes south.” Mira emerges from the kitchen. The gingerbread house Frankie worked on rests on a glass cake stand. new centerpiece iTunes’ carols playing as a proud pastry…
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#Haikai Challenge #12 (12/17/17): Winter Solstice #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
(Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere. Image by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz.) Look who ran the gauntlet of last week’s Haikai Challenge: qbit– Haiku–Ever Falling Green Snow Jules Paige– Light; opaque obstructions Charley– Haiku: Snow on Evergreen Jilly– Perennial Petru– Tanka Xenia Trans– Haiku: First Snow ; Haibun:…
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#Free-style Friday (12/15/17): My latest is up…Morning Thunderstorm – #Haibun #haiku #poetry| .@ImageCurve
Morning Thunderstorm The skylight rattles under a tumult of fresh rain. The windchime dances in a sudden wind; it’s tritonal melody incessantly plays on. Thunder booms. The storm ebbs and flows. Lightning flashes twice. Thunderclaps follow. The road through it awaits. cloudbreak cottontails graze on wet grass first published in Image Curve, December…
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#Throwdown Thursday 12/14/17: December 14, 2012…#haibun #haiku #poetry
My father died of pancreatic cancer on this day in 2011. A year later, the Sandy Hook shooting occurred. These two traumatic events have intertwined in my life in ways that I can’t even imagine. The following haibun bears witness to that first anniversary of Dad’s death, and that tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. December…
Frank J. Tassone 