Tag: poetry
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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 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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Passing through Storms
The breezes blew all morning. They now pick up to constant wind. The storm door slams multiple times. Mira and I wonder if the glass will break. Of course, the predicted thunderstorms are late, but they’ll come. Meanwhile, my head spins. X, formerly known as Twitter, is abuzz with election ’24. The sudden life and…
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“breezes…” a #tanka (8/9/24) #TankaThursday
8/9/24: breeze breezes blowing in the thunderclouds standing outside Starbucks a homeless man #tanka#micropoetry#poetry
Frank J. Tassone 