Tag: haibun
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#Haikai Challenge II #8 (2/25/24): leap year (Urudoshi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I hope you enjoyed the snow while it lasted, haijin. Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Suzette Benjamin2. Eugi 3. Jules4. Ben Tonkin 5. Melissa Lemay6. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Looking ahead… The interesting thing about having a solar calendar that is 356.25 days long is that…
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Those Days
When I stood on a hilltop behind Chestnut Ridge Middle School, the late afternoon sun bathing my face. I sought comfort, a new teacher so overwhelmed with the demands of the new profession, and a steep learning curve ahead. Or when Mira and I took Frank on the plethora of outings: Childrens’ Museums, Amusement Parks…
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This Tactility
Your touch on my face. This tremble down my spine. My caress of your own. That quiver beneath my fingertips. Is this how we know we’re alive? evening twilight how many more days do we still have? How many more times will we touch? De Jackson pubtends Quadrille #195 over at dVerse tonight, where we…
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#Haikai Challenge II #7 (2/17/24): light snow (awayuki) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
Witness any inspiring Dragon Dances, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jules2. Eugi 3. Cheryl4. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! This week in New York’s backyard, we’ve had snow. Twice! In the same week! Just when we got out, Old Man Winter pulls us back in!…
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Realization
I rehash that difficult conversation over and over. Ruminate over what I could have said differently. Glower in grudging resentment over what I didn’t say. Thus, I trap myself in the past—an illusion, for it no longer exists. I shudder at what happens when I face that conversant. Ruminate what I will say. Chaff at…
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#Haikai Challenge II #6 (2/11/24): New Year (shinnen) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #kyoka #haiga #renga #HaikaiChallenge
I trust you enjoyed your Springtime sea savoring, haijin! Congratulations to last week’s contributors! Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Peter2. Jules3. Eugi 4. Peter5. Cheryl6. Ben Tonkin 7. Melissa Lemay8. Suzette Benjamin9. Selma Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Onward! This past Saturday marks the Lunar New Year! Welcome in the Year of the Dragon! In…
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Dragon Dance
I see it all. SSAs, sprawled on the floor, barely breathing. Daniel—a juijitsu master—on one knee, bleeding. Glenda and Cindi, beside the downed SSAs, looking up, terrified. Three intruders, smirking, with bloodstained fists. One clenches Kay’s hair to her skull. His eyes meet mine. His smirk becomes a grin. He steps toward me, dragging her…
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A Gentling Art
The imagination runs wild! Cascades of caramel candy-corn torrent toward the corral. The whisperer remains seated, back straight, eyes unfocused. Imagination ninnies. Dragons scorch the house. Aliens land. Mushroom clouds burst! The whisperer remains still. Sighing, a chastened Imagination settles. returning ashore sea breeze Lillian invites us to express our imagination over at dVerse Poets’…
Frank J. Tassone 