Tag: poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (1/29/19)
1/29/19: son one week until my son turns sixteen … the coming storm #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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The Heart of Majesty
Not the tallest. Nor the steepest. But what other mountain so captures the culture of a people? What other embodies a nation? Or inspires so many poets’ tears? cold carp the nevermelting snow atop Mt. Fuji Will I ever see you face to face? for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #72 (pubtended by Mish). She invites us…
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“Hudson breeze…” a #tanka (1/28/19)
1/28/19: cats Hudson breeze goosebumps at the high note of “Memories” just another star-struck child seeing “Cats.” #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (1/28/19)
1/28/18: fireplace oh, to relax by the fireplace — Monday morning #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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Going
Twilight deepens to dusk, after such a radiant, brisk day. The lower wind chime has become hopelessly tangled. Breezes continue to pass anyway. So it goes. A restlessness writing usually salves persists. The sandpaper sensation in both elbows, like ants walking on skin, continues. A growing tightness in the throat intensifies. So it goes. It’s…
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My Daily #Haiku (1/26/19)
1/26/19: nesting wind-blown clouds how long before a new nesting season? #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Rollar-coastering Climate: a #writephoto #haibun
The latest “Storm of the century” dropped a mere inch of snow. Frozen rain fell after, adding an icy crust to snow that it didn’t dissolve. The next day, frigid temperatures that rose no higher than ten degrees Farenheit transformed that snow into icy plains. cold sparrows the biting wind around the funeral home Two…
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The Perils of Letting Go: a #tankaprose
1/25/19: Gerry Muse #140–Letting go The perils of “letting go” “Everything I ever let go had claw marks on it.” I had heard it said in the rooms many times by many people. When I was in therapy for a time, it described well my own conflicts with detachment. I told my therapist. Never imagining…
Frank J. Tassone 