Tag: 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…
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My Daily #Haiku (9/19/18)
9/19/18: Wild Aster Michaelmas dawn deer gazing in a field of wild asters #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Tai Chi Logos: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse (9/18/18)
sunrise the potency, the power of the tree of life listening to the word everlasting One more sunrise. One more bright ray to shatter the predawn darkness. One more ascent breaching the horizon. One more. One more sunset. One last ray before the coming twilight. One descent like a bowing courtier before…
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Declination of the Circus
The spotlights shattered the darkness inside Madison Square Garden. The center ring bathed in sudden light illuminated the cacaphony of clowns, trapize artists, animals and all of the fascination that Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus could offer a child in the late seventies. I marveled at every act, spellbound by spectacle. …
