Tag: poetry
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A Moment of Mindful Movement: a #tankaprose
Bloodshed in three states in a week. Over twenty-nine dead in two cities within twenty-four hours. Three mass-shooters: only one alive and under arrest. The arguments begin. The ones that insist military-grade weaponry belong with the military versus the ones screaming, “Don’t touch my guns!” A President of the United States that tweets “It’s the…
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My Daily #Haiku (8/6/19)
8/6/19: okra Hiroshima Day … another haikuabout okra #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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Hope out of Hiroshima
What is it like to look up from the shadowed outlines burned into the walls? Where can one go to see through the black rain? How can all of the tears be dried when the shattered ruins of murdered cities lay all around? Only one people have answered that question. They rose. Yes, with the…
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“train station…” a #tanka (8/5/19)
8/5/19: change at the station train station the long wait on the platform for a transfer seeing an AR-15 with every glance #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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“thunder…” a #tanka (8/3/19)
8/3/19: unprompted thunder the echo of multiple rounds fired the last shopping that some will have ever done #tanka #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #DomesticTerrorism #ElPasoStrong
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My Daily #Haiku (8/3/19)
8/3/19: begonia August morning still in bloom our begonias #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 13, August 6, 2014 (My latest .@ImageCurve #haibun)
Madonna rises ahead. The ski lift passes out of sight. Mira and I walked hear all the way from Mountain Laurel 15 via the Meadowlark. Now I wonder what we were thinking. gravel on grass Summit enshrouded in gray clouds A maintenance worker sporting a wheel tattoo on his left forearm recommends a pathway. We…
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“Morning sun…” a #tanka (8/2/19)
8/2/19: spider web morning sun the faintest trace of a spider web Why do the hornets and yellow jackets fly free? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 