Tag: Image Curve
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/22/18): A Shattering Truth
A Shattering Truth BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 22ND MARCH 2018 You and Dad tried to conceive for twelve years before you decided to adopt. You told me that story often enough: how I grabbed your pinky when you visited candidate babies, and you knew I was the one. But what happened when Robert was born? He…
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#Wayback Wednesday (3/21/18): Flea Market…an .@ImageCurve #haibun
Flea Market BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 20TH NOVEMBER 2014 Haibun Poem A green mountain coffee sign stands in the aisle. Cotton T-shirts and three-quarter shirts with band and sports regalia logos hang on wracks or rest folded on tables inside many booths. Others held piles of DVDs and paperbacks. Then we find the statues. Sts. Michael,…
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/15/18): My latest is up… Summer Virus – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve
Summer Virus BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 15TH MARCH 2018 Haibun The bloated feeling began when we drove home from the library. The cramping began later, when we came to bed. Rolaids offered no relief. The cramping soon became stabbing pains, waking me up. I had dreamed that Mom suggested I take a stool softener.…
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No Ke Me: an .@ImageCurve #haibun for #dversepoets
Fickle Weather A gray canopy scatters in a sudden wind. Sunlight bathes the parched grass in radiance it no longer needs. A moment later, one last cloudbank eclipses the sun. budding Maple yearning for warmer days more by FRANK J. TASSONE photograph by Sam X first published in Image Curve, March 17,…
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#Throwdown Thursday (3/1/18): my latest #haibun—An Unimportant Failure – is up on .@ImageCurve
Happy that my latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve today! An Unimportant Failure BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 1ST MARCH 2018 Nothing worth remembering. That fifth period class—where Moesha braided Katherine’s hair, Neina screamed; and Chastery, Jowayne and Zaire did no work—fades to insignificance. No homes called, no repercussions planned—only the slightest sense that my…
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#Free-style Friday (2/23/18): A #writephoto #haibun from .@ImageCurve
Empty Gestures Nothing left to offer but the rain sunset on the Ramapo Mountains not a drop falls more by FRANK J. TASSONE photograph by Frances Gunn first published in Image Curve, May 4, 2017 republished here for Sue Vincent’s #writephoto Thursday prompt–2/22/18 UPDATE: for dverse poets…
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#Throwdown Thursday (2/22/18): My latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve
Arboreal Awakening The far maple, where I once hung Frankie’s tire swing, blooms. The maple beside our deck, the one with moss growing up its split trunk, arises from its winter slumber, too. We will enjoy another warm season with these old friends. tiniest blossoms bowing its lowest branches over the deck basking…
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A Drinking Medley: a found #poem of #haibun surveying the fine art of imbibing…#haiku #poetry
“Thank God the Tiki Bar is open…” -Randy Newman Paul, tending bar at dVerse tonight, asks us for poetry about drinking–full creative liscense given. But I am a simple man, with simple needs. And at least one of…
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