Tag: poetry
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#Senryu Saturday (12/2/2017)…nights like these…#haiku #poetry
By Charles Mosley, 1749 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons tangled bedsheets stars disappearing before a brightening sky
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#Publication Alert (12/2/17): Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today! #haibun #haiku #poetry
Happy that my haibun Mowing and Remembrance appears in Haibun Today, December 2017, v.11, n.4! Mowing and Remembrance The old Yard Machine awaits. Dried out grass fills every groove in its tires. The hood, which snapped off its hinges snagging a low-hanging branch, loosely rests over the motor. One of its blades must surely…
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#Free-styleFriday (12/1/17): my Failed Haiku 24 premier…#senryu #haiku #poetry
Did I mention how pleased I am to appear in Failed Haiku 24? October morning the superb timing of a failing furnace shots fired a “dear diary” entry left blank
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A #Tanka-Prose #haibun for A Month with Yeats: Day 30
Thank you, Jane, for your guidance on this wonderful, November journey. And now, for the thirtieth… via Pinterest.com “And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,” —W.B. Yeats Bloodsword Sunset The first chill is in the air. The last withered leaves scatter in a passing Autumn…
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#ThrowdownThursday 11/30/17…my latest on .@ImageCurve: Scattered So Early #Haibun #haiku #poetry
Scattered So Early BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 30TH NOVEMBER 2017 A body in full rebellion Stomach cramps nausea vertigo A mind in disarray Swirling thoughts Songs Mania rising, falling Winds in full swirl Chime singing, Newly budding maples swaying A clock that ticks mercilessly on morning sky indifference to suffering or relief…
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Twenty-nine
ingawh [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons ‘Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?’—W.B. Yeats Blood sunset our mad general pursues her across this land so we bleed so far from home for these empty vanities for Jane Dougherty’s A…
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A #TankaTuesday (on a Wednesday) 11/29/17 special…On Winter Mornings and Abundant Wanderings…#haiku #poetry
By ILMRT (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Winter mornings abundance of hot coffee before wandering congested highways of these inevitable commutes For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 73–Winter and Mornings and Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge and Poets United Midweek Motif–bittersweet and Real Toads Tuesday Platform
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#Tanka Tuesday (11/28/17)…A Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 28
By Stephen Reid (Eleanor Hull, The Boys’ Cuchulain) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ‘I would that the Boar without bristles had come from the West And had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the sky’ —W.B. Yeats crows’ flight tied to my post, waiting for my enemies denying the Morrigu…
Frank J. Tassone 