Tag: poetry
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#Throwdown Thursday 11/2/17…my latest #Haibun #Poetry: Morning Whine on .@ImageCurve
The coffee maker still gurgles after nearly an after hour. A steady electric hum drowns out the chorus of birdsongs, save one… Check out the rest on Image Curve!
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#Way-back Wednesday 11/1/17…final spookiness…#haibun #haiku
Encountering the Apparition The fair at Patriot’s Park in North Tarrytown bustles with people. Kids scream on the Flying Saucers and the Tilt-o-Whirl. Not so much on the carousel. Then there is the haunted house. I walk up its dark entryway. Turn left. See a flashing strobe-light. And a familiar figure: Jesus Christ. He sits…
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Special Wednesday #Tanka (Tuesday) Edition
cold North Wind no surprises left as we prepare our last march who knew immortality would cost this much? For Kiwinana’s Tuesday Weekly Tanka Challenge 69- Surprise and Prepare and Jane Dougherty Writes’ November Yeats Challenge- Day 1
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A Saint Psalmody: a #haibun for .@PoetsUnited #MidweekMotif
A Saint Psalmody I look to you, Francis of Assisi, and what you did when you answered the call. How your hands must have ached, holding each stone on those cold mornings. You lifted stone after stone into place, until the pile of ruins took on the image of the old Church it once was.…
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#Publication Alert! Haiku in the Workplace: The New Boss! #haiku #poetry
Happy to appear again in today’s Haiku in the Workplace: The New Boss her oversized suit our assistant principal’s sudden promotion
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Samhain Sorrows…a #Halloween #haibun for #dVerse…
Samhain Sorrows Why do you mock us? With your costumed attire more suitable for the bordello than for posing as one of us. While we, breaching the veil between worlds, feel again the bitter cold and ravenous hunger we knew in life. And what feast do you prepare for us, now? Children crying out, “trick…
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#Tanka Tuesday #1 10/31/17…Fright and Night this #Halloween…
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge offers a new wrinkle for the month of November, beginning today: use synonyms of the prompts. dark descending tremble in terror as the dead assemble their feast laid bare before sunrise
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A #Haibun on Kindness…dVerse’s Haibun Monday 10/30/17…
Soraya’s Annual I receive a call from AnaMaria. A family awaits me outside 282. I head to the office suite to meet them. Only they aren’t the family I’m expecting. I swallow, open the door and seat the three of them. Soraya’s mother holds three folded letters. The last one reads “Final Notice of Summons.”…
Frank J. Tassone 