Tag: haibun
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#Free-style Friday: a #haibun for #dVerse Poets’ Pub’s MTB – sleep
Her Infirmity is My Insomnia I wake up at four in the morning. Try and sleep again. Mira coughs, inhales hard. Coughs again. She gets up and sprays her nostrils with her over-the-counter spray. I listen to her. All the while hoping for a sleep that does not come. sparrow’s song beneath a brightening sky bare maples…
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(Un)seasonal (Un)systematic
#Haiku Happenings #4: Reena Saxena present a #Tanka-prose #haibun for heeding haiku with chevrefeuille-september 27th, 2017-mushrooms!
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#Throw-down Thursday 9/28/17: my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Spring Recess Reverie | .@ImageCurve
https://www.imagecurve.com/spring-recess-reverie/
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#Wayback Wednesday 9/27/17…an .@ImageCurve #haibun concerning a close encounter…
Empty Intimacies The towers of the George Washington Bridge straddle the traffic. The constant drone outside our motel room is our own urban surf. Inside, a musty smell from the carpet complements the faded wall-paper peeling at the corners. We dress. Step outside into a hot, sticky August night. Like the last two…
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#Monoku Monday 9/25/17: a #Quadrille #41 for dVerse Poet’s Pub
Fra Diavolo Crushed red pepper, like yellow sunflower seeds in powdered blood. Marinara sauce made fresh from boiled tomatoes. Mixed together, poured over a fresh lobster and linguini. Forkfuls, washed down with Chianti! For dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille # 41 (spice): “Your entire poem need not be spicy or relate to spices (though…
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#Senryu Saturday 9/23/17: Naked Inattention from .@ImageCurve
Naked Inattention We change from gym in the boy’s bathroom — talking about something that grabs my undivided attention. We walk down the gray-brown granite hallway to our first-grade class. We step inside. All of my classmates laugh. Because I returned wearing no pants. fleeing up the hall— tighty whities covered only in plastic …
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#Throwdown Thursday: my latest #haibun #poetry is up at .@ImageCurve
O Distraction Frankie left the Teen Titans Wiki open on my Internet Explorer. Of course, I read bios of Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire instead of my work. After that, I must see the episode where they come together for the first time. Then I can’t miss 3-part fourth season finale, where Raven confronts…
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#Poetry challenge accepted: DVerse question poem
For the DVerse Poetry question poem challenge Why? Why are the thorns as much a part of the rose as the petals? Why is the only authentic love the love of the “nail-scarred hand”? Why does the truth crucify us to liberty? Why does desire dog us like the furies? Why ignore the way when…
Frank J. Tassone 