Tag: poetry
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A Cowardly Lion’s Soliloquy
The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much. I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days when I saw no beauty anywhere. I…
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#Publication Alert! (8/22/18)
Delighted to report that one of my latest haiku appears in The Haiku Foundation’s A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN–Hearing: heavy breathing before the summit rustled leaves Frank J. Tassone Congratulations to all contributing haijin!
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My Daily #Haiku (8/22/18)
8/22/18: variable the dependent variable ignored— late summer rain #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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Acedia Mood: A #TankaTuesday #TankaProse
hidden sun silence from the cicadas this Autumnal day A thirst for more than water beside a vessel more than full Still, the weight. An unseen sorrow, an ennui. Too many days in this den? Too much stifling heat or suffocating humidity? Or is it the ambitious expectations too high to meet: a new journal…
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My Daily #Haiku (8/21/18)
8/21/18: underground all the years since riding the Underground — singing grasshoppers #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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“gray sky…” a #tanka
8/20/18: mystery gray sky grasshopper songs as a jet descends why we hurt each other a heartbreaking mystery #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku (8/20/18)
8/20/18: timid timidity of a tame tiger Autumnal night #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
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My Daily #Haiku #2 (8/18/18)
8/18/18: recite before the party a lone songbird recital #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
Frank J. Tassone 