Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge #8 (11/19/17) #haiku #senryu #tanka #haibun
“Bellagio Decoration: Thanksgiving”, Marcho Verch, Wikimedia Commons Thank you for last week’s Birthday well-wishes. I appreciate it! Congratulations to last week’s participants! Jilly- Heart Protector qbit- Haiku-Veteran’s Day revivedwriter- Veteran Charley- A Veteran Walks Away -Xenia- haibun-Remembrance Day Onward! This Thursday, The United States celebrates Thanksgiving. As Autumn progresses…
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#ThrowdownThursday 11/16/17…my latest is up: Morning Prayer – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku
Morning Prayer BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 16TH NOVEMBER 2017 Haibun Robins, sparrows, and cardinal songs through an open window. Bacon sizzling from the kitchen. The flickering tongue of an indifferent Senhora da Fatima Candle in a drape-rustling breeze. Seated on the zafu, legs folded on the zabuton. A tenuous hold of intention through a…
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#Monoku Monday 11/13/17…A Visit to the Owl…#haibun #haiku #poetry #dVerse
A Visit to the Owl What must have gone through poor Mrs. Brisbee’s mind? A mouse, venturing into the lair of an owl so close to dark. Nothing short of a desperate mother’s love for her sick son could so drive her to face such horror alone. And what did she gain? A…
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#Haikai Challenge #7 (11/11/17): Veterans…#haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Thank you to last week’s participants: Jilly–Trinity Charley–Haiku–Souls in Flight qbit–haiku–River Nihil revivedwriter–remember, remember On to today’s. It’s Veteran’s day in the United States. It’s also my birthday. Late this morning, my son and I brave the below-30-degrees-Farenheight cold to attend our neighboring village’s Veterans commemoration. Now, I’m typing this challenge–a privilege I could…
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#Senryu Saturday 11/11/17…a #haibun on a birthday going wrong…#haiku #poetry
Uninvited Celebrants We had plans for my birthday worked out when the French door opens. Five minutes later Mom and Dad sit at our kitchen table. As often happens living in a mother-daughter home. “We didn’t know what you guys were doing,” Dad says, “We bought a cheesecake.” “We celebrated last night,” I reply. “That…
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/8/17…my latest is up: Meltdown – #Haibun #poetry .@ImageCurve
Meltdown I’m administering a Level I Vocational Assessment to Ana, when Julian bursts into the room, He throws something that misses Myru and hits the metal cabinet housing our class’ books and folders. He drops into a worn desk. His fists repeatedly pound the surface, before opening and clasping the back of his…
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#Wayback Wednesday 11/8/17…the dark side of silence…a #haibun #haiku #poetry for .@PoetsUnited
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…
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
Frank J. Tassone 