Tag: haiku
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#Free-style Friday 11/3/17…a #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 3
Another Tanka for Jane Dougherty’s renamed A Month with Yeats: Day 3 Tuatha de Danann their storm-swept ancient faces face our iron the distant black smoke of our burning ships
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A #Tanka for November Yeats Challenge-Day 2
desolate lands cold fire in his eyes embracing the dark how high the price we paid forging his dream with our blood for Jane Dougherty’s November Yeats Challenge–Day 2
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An Oil Change: a flashback #haibun for #dVerse OLN
An Oil Change A Latino couple rests on the dark-gray leather couch opposite me. His thoroughly stained white painter’s pants and Sherman white sweatshirt somehow contrast and complement her matching light-gray sweat suit. An Orthodox couple with a toddler sits on burgundy cushion chairs nearby. A rhythmic pounding blends with Asian TV and a muffled…
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/2/17…my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Morning Whine on .@ImageCurve
The coffee maker still gurgles after nearly an after hour. A steady electric hum drowns out the chorus of birdsongs, save one… Check out the rest on Image Curve!
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#Way-back Wednesday 11/1/17…final spookiness…#haibun #haiku
Encountering the Apparition The fair at Patriot’s Park in North Tarrytown bustles with people. Kids scream on the Flying Saucers and the Tilt-o-Whirl. Not so much on the carousel. Then there is the haunted house. I walk up its dark entryway. Turn left. See a flashing strobe-light. And a familiar figure: Jesus Christ. He sits…
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Special Wednesday #Tanka (Tuesday) Edition
cold North Wind no surprises left as we prepare our last march who knew immortality would cost this much? For Kiwinana’s Tuesday Weekly Tanka Challenge 69- Surprise and Prepare and Jane Dougherty Writes’ November Yeats Challenge- Day 1
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A Saint Psalmody: a #haibun for .@PoetsUnited #MidweekMotif
A Saint Psalmody I look to you, Francis of Assisi, and what you did when you answered the call. How your hands must have ached, holding each stone on those cold mornings. You lifted stone after stone into place, until the pile of ruins took on the image of the old Church it once was.…
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#Publication Alert! Haiku in the Workplace: The New Boss! #haiku #poetry
Happy to appear again in today’s Haiku in the Workplace: The New Boss her oversized suit our assistant principal’s sudden promotion
Frank J. Tassone 