Tag: haibun
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Get Nostalgic: a #Tankaprose (4/10/21): Day 10 of #NationalPoetryMonth
How old was I when I first heard U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday?” Thirteen? Fourteen? It doesn’t matter. I was hooked! percussion intro followed by that iconic arpeggio “I can’t close my eyes and make it go way!” A crushing riff, and pounding drum: Bono’s sung lyrics “broken bottles and the children’s screams / bodies strewn…
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Via De La Cruz: a #haibun (4/9/21): Day 9 of #NationalPoetryMonth
I’m tired after a long week. Mira offers me a session of Integrated Energy Therapy (IET). I accept. I lie on her massage table. She covers me with its sheet and blanket. Restorative instrumental music plays from a unit she purchased. She sprays Jasmin around. I close my eyes and relax as she begins. First,…
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Fonn Cogaidh: a #shadorma-prose (4/7/21): Day 7 of #NationalPoetryMonth
forsythia still damp with tears this soil I know what you crave, Pathfinder. You come to me for it, and I find that amusing. Of all the beings in the world, why would you come to me looking for peace? Have you not heard the stories? Do you not know who I am? I whisper…
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Gemini: a #haibun (4/6/21): Day 6 of #Nationalpoetrymonth
Somewhere, a freezing preteen in an Iroquois loincloth chants, “I have faith in God. He will keep me warm.” He holds a torch above his head, standing with a legion like himself–shivering on a cold night. A bonfire down a grassy slope ignites. The legion marches foward. While the light of an apathetic moon shimmers…
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PSA (4/5/21): A Promotion of Mira’s new Practice!
I am happy to announce that Mira has launched her Psychotherapy private practice! Utilizing talk therapy and holistic healing modalities, she accompanies clients on their journey to wholeness and harmony in life. But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself: I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker committed to working with individuals, families,…
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#Haikai Challenge #182-185 (3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3): Transformation #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga #nationalpoetrymonth
Hope you enjoyed celebrating our (sort of) Spring. Congratulations to the last challenge’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Ruth Partridge2. Ruth Partridge3. Ruth Partridge4. Li/Lisa Fox of W MI, USA 5. Dave Madden6. Eugenia7. nrk8. lynn__ 9. Jules10. Goutam Dutta11. Colleen Chesebro12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! Mad March…
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Inaugural Easter Awe: a #haibun (4/4/21)— Day 4 of #NationalPoetryMonth
Do you dare make sense of it? The trembled voices of terrified women cry out the impossible. Everybody knows dead is dead; no one returns. It is a fact as immutable as the blue sky above and the ground below! But what do you make of an empty tomb? A stone rolled into place by…
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“Failure to Communicate” a #tankaprose (4/3/21) Day 3 #nationalpoetrymonth
What are you trying to tell me, you aches and pains? What message is so important? Your throbbing and sandpaper-grating sensations on my joints stiffen me to immobility. Your grating of my nerves has my undivided attention. Say what you need to say. Because the road beckons. The trail whispers on a spring breeze. Sunlight…
Frank J. Tassone 