“while night falls…” a #tanka (10/4/21)
10/4/21: prompt-free while night fallsa slow chill along withcricket songshow did we surviveFacebook’s latest outage? #tanka #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry
#SilentSunday (10/3/21)
A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
Courting Mortality: a #Tankaprose
“Who wants to live for ever?” Freddie Mecury of Queen sang. You say that you do, and so many would agree. “Who wouldn’t want to be forever young?” you all ask. Tell me this: where do you think you would find such immortals? Striding the banks of the […]
A Day Out
I sat listening to Haiku Pea in a NY Presbyterian waiting room when she came back. The staff told her they’d contact her when she could schedule her CT scan. Emblem would preauthorize in their own due time, of course. As we exited the outpatient building and crossed […]
#Haibun-block
The drought continues. What roared through verdant channels now trickles. The lion’s roar is a kitten’s purr. Empty space calls forth a steady blankness. Haiku flow easily enough. Tanka pour out with little difficulty. But haibun? I am William Shakespeare from “Shakespeare in Love,” lying on his apothecary’s […]
Frank J. Tassone 