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A Meditation
Morning light. Sitting on a zafu atop a zabuton. Breathing in. Feeling the itchy sensations of my own skin, rheumatoid aches, and chi. Breathing out. Again, and again, as thoughts arise and fall like heartbeats. Until…just this. & then the 20-minute alarm goes off. mid-August the first oak leaf falls
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“breathing in and out…” a #tanka (8/14/24)
8/14/24: clouds breathing in and out… “a cloud of forgetting” for all my thinking & only this breathing for “a cloud of unknowing” #tanka#micropoetry#poetry#thecloudofunknowing
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#Haiku (8/14/24)
8/14/24: soulmate after waking in each other’s arms— morning coffee #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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A Subway Etiquette Lesson
Everybody minds their own business in the NYC subway. Ecept for the twenty-something out-of-town bigot berating a blue-haired girl. I didn’t want to educate him. One look around the car, however, and I knew no one else would. Tired, but fed up with such mortal nonsense, I stand up & step into the personal space…
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“a walk past…” a #tanka (8/13/24) #TankaTuesday
8/13/24: blackberries a walk past a front-yeard garden with sunflowers we salivate for the blackberries to come #tanka#micropoetry#poetry for Colleen Chesebro’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 47, 8/13/24, Part II: The Beginning of Autumn
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#Haiku (8/13/24)
8/13/24: homestead sunlit garbage pails my first webpage was a digital homestead #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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“grasshopper sounds…” a #tanka (8/12/24)
8/12/24: woods grasshopper sounds so many years since “Into the Woods” the recollections keep coming #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
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#Haiku (8/12/24)
8/12/24: middle child Jones Beach the “middle child” screams at the waves #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 