Tag: poetry
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#Freeverse Friday #2: A spontaneous dinner-dance with Amalia Rodrigues…#haibun #haiku #poetry
We finish Mira’s homemade pizza. She’s cooked a perfect pie, complete with a savory crust that holds the cheese, pepper, onions and marinara sauce without breaking apart. With dinner done, she opens spotify and finds Amalia Rodrigues, Portugal’s most famous woman Fado singer. Her melodic, reviberating and intense crescendos fill the kitchen, move us out…
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#Freestyle Friday (1/19/18): A #haibun tree tribute…#haiku #poetry .@ImageCurve
Spring Suite, Finis: Apple Trees The apple tree in our backyard has grown back. Dad and I trimmed it way back before he died. It’s full again, leaves covering its crowning branches in a mane of green. Frankie’s step remains at the base of the trunk: a two-by-four we nailed just below the trunk…
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/18/18): Avian Antics–my latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve #haiku # poetry
Avian Antics A red-breasted robin leaps onto a high, thin branch on the apple tree. Branch and bird swing up and down three times. Then it flies. A nearby maple tree’s high branch swings up and down. The robin? Nowhere in sight. morning clouds swaying in a passing breeze a dogwood first published in…
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Miles from Innisfree: A #haibun response to Yeats…#haiku #poetry #dversepoets #writephoto
Jilly serves up the poetry as a guest pub tender at dVerse. She challenges us to write a response poem, a poem that directly replies to another poem. When I saw Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt–distant, I thought of Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree. I knew he and I needed to talk! The Lake…
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Rûaħ: a #haibun exploring an experience of the #soul…#haiku #poetry
Breathe. Let the torrent of thoughts come. The to-do lists for work that never get done. That hello to the boss left unreturned. The wild apathy of the few in that one class. The coming commute. The restlessness of the repetition of it all. Let the flood of feelings come with that torrent of thoughts.…
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Light Bearing: a #Tanka Tuesday (1/16/18) #tankaprose #haibun …#poetry #haiku #dversepoets
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that” I never knew my about mother’s prejudice until I was almost thirteen. She deliberately chose to withold any comment, or display any attitude, that would influence me to adopt her biases. Others’ parents did not make such enlightened decisions. dark night “better…
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#Monoku Monday (1/15/18)…#haiku #poetry
hanging leaves in and out of the house silence
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Bounce Back: A Riding the Dragon #Quadrille #haibun reprise…#poetry #haiku
The Dragon bucks. He spills me onto the earth. I can lie there, staring at the sky with the breath knocked out of me. Or I can bounce back up. And get back in the saddle. winter sun the only way out is through for dVerse–Quadrille #48. DeJackson hosts, and the word…
Frank J. Tassone 