Tag: poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (4/23/20)
4/23/20: backpack overcastthe weight of the worldin a backpack #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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Turnabout: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #tankaprose
“One can live without having survived.” Carolyn Forche A fruit basket, delivered to a hotel room–covered in lighter fluid. A patronizing condescension during a class introduction: “one of our special people.” The abject fear with which the six-foot-something boy in a man’s body commanded. If only he had understood the old Portugese saying: “Beware the…
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“the droning of…” a #tanka (4/22/20)
4/22/20: prompt-free the droning of lawnmowers and leafblowers on this Earth Day as sunlit trees sway in a cold spring wind #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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My Daily #Haiku (4/22/20)
4/22/2020: glue Earth Day —still lamentingBoxer* *Boxer is the beloved workhorse from the fable “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell. #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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Of Love and Hate: A #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 mock-translated #Gendai – #Haibun
Can love and Hate occupy the same relationship? Or is a Greek God’s pursuit of a nymph the same lust for power humanity has indulged for millenia? As though Dapne had a choice. As though Apollo allowed her one. qui tamen insequitur pennis adiutus Amoris,ocior est requiemque negat tergoque fugacisinminet et crinem sparsum cervicibus adflat.…
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“empty room…” a #tanka (4/21/20)
4/21/20: unprompted empty room the silence after the last echoes of their voices fade away #tanka #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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My Daily #Haiku (4/21/20)
4/21/20: train a train hornafter the rainfades away #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #NaPoWriMo2020 #GloPoWriMo2020
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Our Folly, Desire: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #quadrille – #haibun
We don’t know what we want. We ask, don’t receive. Flush our sleeves with vain tears! We receive, and oh, woe! Unintended consequences, our sorrowful song. “Some quality time at home would be nice…” mispent wish … the gift we can’t keep or give away
Frank J. Tassone 