Tag: National Poetry Month 2020
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An Encore of “This #Corona: a Day 10 #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #Hay(nu)ku #sonnet”
sunlight … passing clouds and sudden flurries this Good Friday only streaming Stations quarantine living our novam viam crucis folly those people slighting this #Corona this “Mask of the Red Death“
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#Haikai Challenge #136 (4/26/20): late cherry [blossoms*] (osozakura) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Enjoy your New Moon stargazing, haijin? Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Li/Lisa2. Jen Goldie3. Peter4. Eugenia5. Dave Madden6. Revived Writer 7. Astrid8. Pat 9. Kerfe Roig10. Jules11. Merril D. Smith12. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 13. Xenia Tran14. Christine Bialczak15. Janice16. Frank J. Tassone Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya! April…
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O Wine! (a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 solo- #renga #ode)
In hoc genimine vitis es óperis mánuum hóminum O, fruit of the vine vitis Vinifera Cuius culmen in How ebullient, you grapes boistrous in the summer sun What a fools errand believing you a native of other soils How you grew on the mountains saddling two continents How you spread over seas in Greek and…
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Social Shakespearean Note: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 sole #Renga
“To thine own self, be true…” Polonius, “Hamlet” Act 1, scene 3. an April night like any other, except it’s the Bard’s birthday “What of it, when scholars say legions of monkeys will do?” a starless sky and the debate over his relevance goes on “What can Shakespeare say to us that televised moon landings?”…
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A clean-up Wike: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun
The Long Path trailhead parking lot–filled to capacity. All the lonely people–mostly from New Jersey–have arrived to embrace nature and unleash that howl they’ve pent up all week. In the course of exercising their resolve at this fixture of Harriman State Park, they leave a lot of trash behind. That’s why we’ve come with so…
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Novel-Coronal Hope: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #AmericanSentence #TankaProse
“…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien We do not face the abyss alone, for the…
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A Haiku Cavalcade: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 / #InHaiPoDay2020 #Haiku Sequence
first snowfall inserting a cartridge in the Atari wet season within the rain forest cacaphony midafternoon sun staring from the shade an iguana falling leaves flyover country between us
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The Last Apparition: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #TankaProse
What higher praise can I offer you, mother, than a prayer through you to your son? these remains of devotional sculpture how can I witness such things with these dry eyes and still go on living?
Frank J. Tassone 