Tag: poetry
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A Memory of Them
The Cherry blossoms passed so quickly. Now, the greenery of Cherry, Maple, Oak, and locus envelop the neighborhood. An unusual chill pervades the air on this last full weekend of May. Murmers of the ones I lost bubble up with every leaf rippling in the breeze. Granny and Poppy, Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle Butchy and…
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#Haiku (5/26/25)
5/26/25: night owl night owl yet another red eye passes overhead #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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Performance Alert!
Never too late to support a good cause. I am performing a 15-minute set of #haiku, #haibun, and #senryu at the Empty Hand Zen Center today, beginning at 3PM. If you’re local, come on out! It’s $22–payable online. If you can’t make it, please consider donating. clearing skies always a good day for #haikai
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#Haiku (5/7/25)
5/7/25: Cinderella’s slipper midnight chimes beware princes bearing slippers #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #poetry
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#Haiku (5/4/25)
unlit light saberever his mind onthe present #StarWarsDay25 #MayThe4th
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Musical Nostalgia
Asia’s original Album. Heat of the Moment. Only Time Will Tell. Without You. Playing in my walkman on the road, and my boom box at home. 5th grade. My introduction to modern Rock n Roll. young blood the enthusiasm for progressive Rock The tracks playing again in Pogoville, the Camp Marist cabin for the oldest…
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#Haiku (4/30/25)
4/29/25: Poem In Your Pocket Day / 4/30/25: National Bubble Tea Day half-drunk bubble tea beside a crumpled poem from your pocket #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #napowrimo2025glopowrimo #poetry
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A #Na/GloPoWriMo2025 Reprise of “Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun”
The questions of how to begin and what to think are matters for one’s own heart to resolve. Of oneself, for oneself – you must be your own teacher. Sen No Rikyu An ever-twilight, midsummer wood, save for the towering, lakeside Pines and the Cherry blossoms. A meadow in the midst of this floral menagerie,…
Frank J. Tassone 