Tag: poetry
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#nahaiwrimo #2 (2/2/18) #haiku
2/2/18: Thrush (bird) Spring signs … after the groundhog the thrush #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #GroundHogDay
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#nahaiwrimo #1 (2/2/18)
2/2/18: railroad ties Spring breeze scurrying on railroad ties A chipmunk #nahaiwrimo #haiku #micropoetry #poetey
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#Throwdown Thursday (2/1/18): My latest is up on .@ImageCurve…#haibun #haiku
My latest #haibun in up on .@ImageCurve! #haiku #poetry
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A Whisper in the Wind: a #ghazal #renga soliloquy for #dversepoets
Photo by Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash As the clouds gather… only a whisper in the wind As the first rains fall… only a whisper in the wind an unseen sunset… a return to an empty house not a soul in sight…only a whisper in the wind only one more cough… a memory of company not…
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Diana’s Admonition: A #haibun for #SuperBlueBloodMoon…#haiku #poetry
Do I scandalize you, mortals? How even when full, I hide my face, as though blushing in shame for some crime? Why should I not bow as my mother passes before me? Do you not reverence your own mothers? And do not trouble me about that hunter, again! How many of you would muster…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/30/18): Looking Glass Lives–a #tankaprose…#haiku #haibun #poetry
Photo by Mike Wilson on Unsplash rippling pond a long search in vain for the ties that bind How much longer will you stare for the answer that won’t come? More gray than I’d like to admit. Growing crow’s feet. Lines under my blue eyes I don’t see in myself. A sorrow in those eyes, along…
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#Publication Alert 1/30/18 #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my latest haibun The Danger of Poetry appears in the Product Poet’s latest Paper!
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The danger of poetry: a #quadrille #haibun…#haiku #poetry
Photo by David Klein on Unsplash You were wise to banish poets from your Republic, Plato. We are dangerous. Watch us puncture your pious certainties with our clever turns of phrase. Ring your hands as we wordsmith creation. Shudder as we shatter your worshipped lies. poetry — our all-consuming wild truth
Frank J. Tassone 