Tag: poetry
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A #Tanka for A Monh with Yeats: Day 5
siren song fleeting pity in her eyes as our hull breaks a blood sunset on the sea that swallow us all For Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Five UPDATE: for Poets United Poetry Pantry #378
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#Publication Alert 11/5/17…a #senryu Saturday moment on a Sunday #haiku
Happy to appear in Failed Haiku 23 today! Autumn rain a colleague shouts “really?!” at the fire alarm Thank you, Michael Rehling! Congrats to all haijin!
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#Haikai Challenge #6 (11/4/17): Saints and Souls #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka
Here’s to last week’s participating poets, for their contributions to #haikai challenge #5 (10/28/17)–Halloween: Jilly–Trick or… Charley–Troiku–Night Fire revivedwriter–Halloween qbit–All Hallow’s Eve Onward, now, to this week’s challenge: It’s November fourth. November 1st and 2nd collectively have been called the Catholic Days of the Dead. November the first is the Feast of All Saints…
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A #Haibun for Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads–Get Listed: November Edition…#poetry #haiku
Disordered Intent All those desires you deny in the daylight. The gleam of light off the handcuffs hanging from the headboard, the mutual screams in an empty house, the gnarled sheets. But how will you escape them during these lengthening nights? The lure of flesh will have its due. All your resolutions avail you not.…
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A #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day Four…#poetry
shattered moonlight our clanking steel stained red in celestial blood Danann departing at dawn so much mist in the morning for Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats: Day Four
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#Free-style Friday 11/3/17…a #tanka for A Month with Yeats: Day 3
Another Tanka for Jane Dougherty’s renamed A Month with Yeats: Day 3 Tuatha de Danann their storm-swept ancient faces face our iron the distant black smoke of our burning ships
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A #Tanka for November Yeats Challenge-Day 2
desolate lands cold fire in his eyes embracing the dark how high the price we paid forging his dream with our blood for Jane Dougherty’s November Yeats Challenge–Day 2
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An Oil Change: a flashback #haibun for #dVerse OLN
An Oil Change A Latino couple rests on the dark-gray leather couch opposite me. His thoroughly stained white painter’s pants and Sherman white sweatshirt somehow contrast and complement her matching light-gray sweat suit. An Orthodox couple with a toddler sits on burgundy cushion chairs nearby. A rhythmic pounding blends with Asian TV and a muffled…
Frank J. Tassone 