Tag: poetry
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Our Immigrant Story
A view of New York Harbor from Governor’s Island “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” –John A. Shedd storm-tossed seas ambitious ancestors brave steerage the fading memories of Italy left behind Lady Liberty passangers crowding above to glimpse their new home…
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“lengthening nights…” a #tanka (9/24/18)
9/24/18: recurring dream lengthening nights in and out of the classroom these recurring dreams the doe and fawns grazing under a harvest moon #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (9/24/18)
9/24/18: sudden shower last summer night … after dinner a sudden shower #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (9/22/18)
9/22/18: Alchemist high tide a sand-covered copy of “The Alchemist” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (9/21/18)
9/21/18: forage darkness before dawn … the need to forage for those lost friendships #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Seen and Unseen Apple Trees: A #TBT #haibun featuring my latest from .@ImageCurve
I see the apple tree. It’s dark-gray and brown, ridged bark, with Y-shaped branches splitting upward like outstretched arms from its knotted trunk. Its leaves fill every branch. The 2 x 4 Dad and I nailed onto the trunk below the split, so Frankie could plant his foot to climb it. I see him in…
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My Daily #Haiku (9/20/18)
breaking dawn already longing for evening quiet #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Oedipal Complex
Attic cup: Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE; in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome. Album/Oronoz/SuperStock How did you miss the signs, Oedipus? You, for whom the riddle of the Sphinx held no fear? How did you overlook the evidence that…
Frank J. Tassone 