Tag: haibun
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#Performance alert 10/21/17: Rockland Poets Open Mic Today! #poetry #OpenMic #SpokenWord
I plan to perform some of my Haibun tonight! If you’re in the area, come and experience a great night of poetry by many talented poets! https://www.facebook.com/events/314075485662666/?ti=icl
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#Throw-down Thursday #2: My latest (honestly!) #haibun on .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku
An Unpleasant Reminder I find it just before I leave on some errands. A crumpled memo, with Sean’s R’s mother’s phone number on it, requests a phone conference. It’s at least two weeks old, if not older. Another reminder that I haven’t made a single outreach to any parents. The most current log is due…
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#Throwdown Thursday 10/19/17…my (second) latest on .@ImageCurve #haibun #poetry
Update: It’s not you, it’s me. To err is human, to forgive, divine, right? I published this haibun last Thursday. My next post will have the current offerings. Renewed Intimacy My fingers, running gently up and down your bare back. Your gentle moan, as I rub away tension in the tightest muscles surrounding your lower…
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#Way-back Wednesday 10/18/17…for .@PoetsUnited #MidweekMotif
Blossoming Terrors The Japanese Maple grew in the center of 52 Holland’s front yard. Its long branches stretch to the sky like a petitioning priest. Its maroon foliage crowns the tree like a lion’s mane. It beautifully fills my bedroom’s picture window by day. But by night, illuminated by a streetlamp, the tree…
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Animus: a #MonokuMonday (10/16/2017) water #haibun for #dversepoets #HaibunMonday and #withrealtoads (5/31/18)
Animus A six-person river raft bobbing up and down in the frigid Animus River. A paddle stretched out too far. One rapid, knocking me overboard. beyond white foam so many spruces Break the surface. Still holding the safety line circling the raft. My face, slapped by the river. Again. Again. Back under. Bubbles from…
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#Hakai Challenge #3: Foliage #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Congratulations to Qbit, Xenia and revivedwriter for participating in last week’s challenge! On to this week’s challenge! It’s mid-October. Halfway to Halloween. The leaves have begun their kaleidoscope of color. This week, write a haikai poem about fall foliage. You can reference the image or use the word “foliage” in your poem. Here’s how the…
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A #RhymeRoyal poetic #haibun
Frank Hubeny at dVerse challenges us to write a Chaucerian stanza or Rhyme Royal. This form employs a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, written in (usually) iambic pentameter metric lines (seven) in up to three stanzas. But I write haikai. What to do? Go poetic in the prose-poem, and break haiku rules and rhyme, that’s what!…
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#Throw-down Thursday 10/12/17…my latest #haibun #poetry is up at .@ImageCurve
Renewed Intimacy My fingers, running gently up and down your bare back. Your gentle moan, as I rub away tension in the tightest muscles surrounding your lower lumbar. Our lips meeting in our kiss. Our embrace. parting clouds remembering the first time First published in Image Curve, October 12, 2017 photo by Tim Mossholder on…
Frank J. Tassone 