Tag: haibun
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#WaybackWednesday 11/22/2017 … on restless reflections #haibun #haiku #poetry
Author’s Note: my cousin dies in a motorcycle accident some years ago. This haibun reflects the events of the day after his funeral. Restless Day After A Nickelodeon version of Cinderella plays in the family room. Bella, our neighbor’s golden retriever, barks at a passing dog and walker. The pine-scented aroma from our…
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Transforming Encounters: a #haibun through other eyes #haiku #poetry
A roar. My rear legs step back. But I’m half out of the brush. Curious. What approaches? A man. Seated on what makes the thunder. An “ATV,” I’ve heard humans say. Our eyes meet. I half-step back. He stares, but he comes no closer. I almost smile. Can he possibly know how…
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A #Thanksgiving remembered #haibun #haiku #poetry
Thanksgiving Weekend 2012 Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd Another wave of sickness strikes. I’m on my knees over the master bath toilet. Orange-and-brown bile fills water and stains the porcelain rim, along with the painted walls and freshly-washed tile. Blackness. A slow awakening, questions. How did I get here? Why did I wake up in…
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Our Standing Ground… a #haibun #quadrille for .@dVersePoets
Where is our root? On shifting fashions, like that house built on sand, awaiting the tumolt and inevitable ruin? Or on authentic sense, that citadel founded on rock, indifferent to buffeting winds and punishing waters? autumn rain a swollen brook eroding a well-worn rock Mish hosts dVerse Poets Pub’s Quadrille…
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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…
Frank J. Tassone 