Tag: poetry
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 18
The Origin of Will O’ The Wisp, 1891, Wikimedia Commons ‘The dews drop slowly and dreams gather;’ —W.B. Yeats Evening dew crystalline in winter cold under a pale moon Will she be here at first light, or does the dream die at dawn? for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day 18
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#Free-styleFriday 11/17/17…a Haiku in the Workplace #haiku
coffee in bed finishing the last lesson at sunrise first published in Haiku in the Workplace: Working From Home, THF, 2017
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A #Tanka for a Month with Yeats: Day 17
‘The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light,’ —W.B. Yeats pre-dawn sky her pale cold hand caressing my bloody cheek all the tears I cannot cry at my enemy’s mercy for Jane Dougherty’s a Month with Yeats: Day 17
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A #Tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 16 #haiku #poetry
From ‘He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and Longs for the End of the World’ ‘Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?’—W.B. Yeats white-tail doe her bent neck over crabgrass at sunset Where have all your fawns gone? Why do you graze alone? for Jane…
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#ThrowdownThursday 11/16/17…my latest is up: Morning Prayer – #Haibun | .@ImageCurve #poetry #haiku
Morning Prayer BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 16TH NOVEMBER 2017 Haibun Robins, sparrows, and cardinal songs through an open window. Bacon sizzling from the kitchen. The flickering tongue of an indifferent Senhora da Fatima Candle in a drape-rustling breeze. Seated on the zafu, legs folded on the zabuton. A tenuous hold of intention through a…
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A #tankaProse for A Month with Yeats: Day 15 #haibun #tanka #poetry #dversepoets
By John M, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.’ —W.B. Yeats A Blood Rose Victory The stars fall as the last light of day fades. Tails of fire light…
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#Tanka Tuesday #2…the Wild Beauty of Street Art…#haiku #poetry
beautiful balloons lovers odor all over the comfy front seat What wild flight of fancy do we overlook each day? for DVerse Poets Pub–Poetics. Hosted tonight by Lillian. For Colleen’s Weekly Tuesday #Poetry Challenge For Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge–week 71
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#Tanka Tuesday #1 (11/14/17)…for A Month with Yeats: Day 14…#haiku #poetry
Jane’s prompt for a Month with Yeats: Day 14: Today’s quote if from ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’. I think the following lines have inspired a sonnet. I find this a hard form to write, but this one came without trying. That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went…
Frank J. Tassone 